Bylaws get a
second look
Port could become the first of four
“zone sponsors” to approve program
■

BY CHELSEA DAVIS
The World

COOS BAY — The Oregon International Port of Coos
Bay could be the first of the four enterprise zone sponsors
to fully invest in the South Coast Community Foundation.
The foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation,
would manage half of the community service fees the
Jordan Cove Energy Project would be required to pay if the
four enterprise zone sponsors — the Port, Coos County
and the cities of Coos Bay and North Bend — grant the
project a long-term rural enterprise zone property tax
exemption.
According to state statutes, the foundation would not
be subject to open meetings and open records law.
All four enterprise zone sponsors will vote whether to
become members in the South Coast Community
Foundation. They also have to vote to induct Bill Lansing,
Joanne Verger and John Whitty as the initial foundation
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Photos by Lou Sennick, The World

The wet nose of a bloodhound named Freddy is one you want to meet up with if you’re lost. Freddy’s K-9 handler is retiring.

End of the trail
Health problems force local tracker, Ed Makaruk, to retire
BY THOMAS MORIARTY
The World

After almost a decade of service,
Coos County’s bloodhound handler is
hanging up his leash, and his dog is
moving on to a new challenge.
Ed Makaruk, a K-9 handler with the
Coos County Sheriff’s Office Search
and Rescue Team, says Freddy, his 3year-old bloodhound, is going back to
his breeder, 832 Deputy Dogs, to be
retrained and rehomed for law
enforcement
works.
“I have had
some real bad
See video of Ed Makaruk
health
issues,”
and Freddy tracking at
Makaruk
said.
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“I’ve had to make
a decision about what was best for
him.”
Instead, Makaruk will now act as a
foster parent for the organization’s
next generation of bloodhounds.
Freddy was donated to Makaruk
about a year ago by 832 — a Floridabased nonprofit — after his first
bloodhound was retired from duty
because of an ACL injury.
Duke Snodgrass, the executive
director of 832, said the organization
has placed well over 160 bloodhounds

Ed Makaruk puts the working harness on
Freddy for an urban search training session
Wednesday morning in Empire. Makaruk is
hanging up his leash from search and rescue
and Freddy is being sent for retraining as a
police dog.
with law enforcement agencies across
the country.
Snodgrass started the bloodhound
program after his son Kody, a K-9 handler with Lake County Sheriff’s Office,
died in a motorcycle crash.

“He was awfully, awfully excited
about it and thinking we need to put a
dog in every department,” Snodgrass
said.
Makaruk first got bit by the bloodhound bug in 2006, when he joined the
Coos County Sheriff’s Office Search
and Rescue team.
He was quickly drawn to K-9 work
after seeing a demonstration of a scent
dog in action.
Franklyn, Ed’s first bloodhound,
was the sibling of one owned by a Coos
County sheriff’s deputy.
In 2009, Makaruk and Franklyn
helped rescue a 6-year-old boy with
autism who had gotten lost in a wooded area in Allegany.
It took less than three hours on the
track before the boy was being hoisted
to safety by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter.
Law enforcement “find and bite” K9s — typically German shepherds or
Belgian Malinois — follow crushed
vegetation and the general scent of
humans. They're typically employed
after police have already set up a
perimeter. Basically, Makaruk said,
they’re looking for the hottest scent in
a specific area.

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Phil Bowman,shown in 2008 photo with his wife Cheryl,died Thursday.
He had worked for the city of North Bend for more than 20 years.

City worker dies in
work site accident
BY THOMAS MORIARTY
The World

NORTH BEND — The South Coast lost one of its most
beloved civil servants Thursday morning in a tragic accident.
North Bend City Administrator Terence O’Connor said
Phil Bowman, a worker with the city’s streets department,
was fatally injured when he was struck by the gate of a
dump truck at a work site in Ferry Road Park.
North Bend police and fire personnel responded to the
park and took Bowman to Bay Area Hospital, where he
died of his injuries.
According to the North Bend Police Department log,
the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Division was
contacted as part of the investigation.
Bowman worked for the city for more than 20 years,
and had been recognized for his service by Mayor Rick

A Eugene-based environmentalist group has given notice to
potential buyers of state forest
lands in Coos County that it
intends to sue them if their bids are
successful.
Cascadia Wildlands, which won

a 2012 injunction blocking logging
on identified marbled murrelet
nesting habitat in the Elliott State
Forest, says that it will seek similar
injunctions against any purchasers
of three forest tracts currently up
for auction.
In a letter to bidders and
prospective bidders Thursday,
attorney Daniel R. Kruse said the

group intends “to commence litigation to obtain an injunction —
the very same injunction already
obtained against the current owner
— to prevent you from logging in
suitable or occupied marbled murrelet habitat.”
Speaking by phone Thursday,
Cascadia Wildlands spokesperson
Josh Laughlin described the notice

After the Federal District Court
for the District of Oregon barred
logging in marbled murrelet habitat in 2012, the state said it had no
choice but to sell some forest land
to make up for declining revenues
which traditionally went towards
the state’s Common School Fund.
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as an effort to deter timber companies from encroaching on the land.
“This is an effort to put industry
on notice that we will prosecute
them if they attempt to buy and log
old growth forests that are home to
the marbled murrelet,” he said.
Marbled murrelets, small seabirds
that nest in old-growth timber, are
listed as an endangered species.

Orange Zone
Coos, Curry and Douglas
county motorists can expect
traffic delays at these road
construction projects this
week, according to the
Oregon Department of
Transportation and the Coos
County Road Department:

Coos County
■ U.S.
Highway 101
(Oregon Coast Highway),
milepost
233.4-234.5,
McCullough Bridge rehabilitation:
This
five-year
project will help prevent
corrosion on McCullough
Bridge by applying a cathodic protection treatment to
the northern concrete arches of the structure. Watch
for nighttime (8 p.m. to 6
a.m.) lane closures the week
of March 17-21. Flaggers will
provide traffic control. The
sidewalk on both sides of the
bridge has been reduced to 3
feet in width during construction. NOTE: The access
road at the northeast corner
of the bridge is restricted.
Only ODOT employees and
contractors are permitted in
this area. Please do not drive
or park on the access road.
■ U.S.
Highway 101,
milepost 234-238, North
Bend to Coos Bay paving,
sidewalks and traffic signals:
Construction is mostly
complete. Watch for intermittent lane, shoulder and
sidewalk closures throughout the project area.

Curry County

The

walls and ceiling of
the Elk Creek
■
U . S .
Tunnel,
and
Highway 101,
make repairs to
milepost 330-331,
Zone
the road surface. The
Hunter Creek Bridge
tunnel will be closed five
cathodic protection:
nights a week until the
Watch for workers and
equipment in the roadway. A middle of May. Tunnel clotemporary traffic signal is in sures will be scheduled from
operation. Flaggers will pro- Saturday night to Thursday
vide
additional
traffic morning, 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.
When the tunnel is closed,
control as needed.
eastbound traffic will detour
from Elkton to Sutherlin on
Douglas County
■ U.S.
Highway 101, state Highway 138W, then
milepost 205-207, hazard north on Interstate 5.
tree removal: Through mid- Westbound traffic will follow
April, U.S. Highway 101 the same route in the opposite
motorists should expect lane direction. During the nightclosures and delays up to 20 time closures, workers will
open the tunnel for emerminutes.
■ U.S.
Highway 101, gency vehicles only. All other
milepost 210.3, rock fall haz- traffic must use alternate
ard mitigation: Watch for routes.During daytime hours,
intermittent shoulder clo- watch for intermittent singlelane closures and brief delays.
sures.
Flaggers will provide traffic
■ U.S. Highway 101, milepost 211, Umpqua River and control as needed.
■ Interstate
5 (Pacific
McIntosh Slough Bridge: This
Highway),
milepost
0-155,
two-year project will paint
road
barrier
and
guardrail
and make repairs to the bridge
over the Umpqua River and replacement: Watch for
McIntosh Slough at the north intermittent daytime lane
end of Reedsport. Watch for and shoulder closures.
■ Interstate
5 (Pacific
lane closures and brief delays.
Highway),
exit
120, rock
A temporary traffic signal is in
place. Flaggers will provide scaling project: The northadditional traffic control as bound exit 120 off-ramp will
be closed from 4 a.m. to 2
needed.
■ State
Highway
38 p.m. Sunday, March 16, due
(Umpqua Highway), milepost to nearby rock scaling work.
For more information,
39, Elk Creek Tunnel rehabilivisit
www.TripCheck.com
tation: This three-month
project will install a liner on the or http://bit.ly/CoosRoads.

ORANGE

A l b e r to ’ s b a c k !

Meetings
SWOCC students
MONDAY
named to All Oregon
Academic team
COOS BAY — Two
Southwestern
Oregon
Community College students have been chosen for
Gov. John
Kitzhaber’s
2014
All
O re go n
Academic
Team.
Kaitlyn
Fallon and
T
i
m
E d i n g f i e l d Kaitlyn Fallon
Student
will go to the
Salem event
w i t h
SWO C C
president
Dr.
Patty
Scott
on
April 22.
Fa l l o n ,
originally of
Roseburg, is Tim Edingfield
Student
studying
s p e e c h
pathology.
She’s
the
Associated
Student
Government
activities
director, president of the
Golden Z Club and is
involved in projects raising
money for children with
cancer, clothing for a homeless teen shelter and is a
volunteer with the Special
Olympics. She has received
scholarships
from
Marshfield High, the Miller
Foundation, the Ford Family
Sons and Daughters program

of
the
Ford
Family
Foundation. She’s also a Phi
Theta Kappa member.
Fallon is the first in her
family to earn a college
degree. She plans to finish
her associate’s degree this
spring. Next year, she plans
to transfer to the University
of Oregon to pursue her
master’s in communication
disorders.
Edingfield, an Arizona
native, studies business at
SWOCC.
He
is
the
Associated
Student
Government’s
volunteer
services director, president
of SWOCC Phi Theta Kappa,
assistant scoutmaster for
Boy Scout Troop 153, member of the Nurturing
Coalition Board and Rotary,
SMART reader, chair of the
Van Jam Committee and a
student tutor and mentor.
He’s also an Eagle Scout and
received a scholarship from
the Miller Foundation.
Edingfield will finish his
associate’s degree in June.
He wants to continue to
Portland State University’s
online business management program in order to
stay in the area to work with
the downtown association
and local rotary groups to
improve the local economic
structure.
Fallon and Edingfield have
both been on the Dean’s list.

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Chess players get one last practice before state
The March Madness chess
tournament March 8 at
South Eugene High School
gave Coquille chess players a
chance to practice one last
time before the Chess for
Success state championships
March 14-15 at the Oregon
Convention
Center
in
Portland.
In the elite section, Aaron
Grabinsky tackled all the highest-rated players. He defeated

them all to retain his status as
the highest-rated scholastic
player in Oregon. Josiah
Perkins and Joshua Grabinsky
put in a few wins in the elite
section but not enough to
place in the top four.
In the advanced section,
1
Hailey Riley scored 2 ⁄2 wins
against frequently higherrated players and tied for
third place.
In the novice section,

Sarah Reed and Logan Hill
tied for first place. An exciting speed chess blitz playoff
was played to break the tie.
With many players, parents
and coaches watching,
Logan won the playoff to
earn the first-place trophy.
Sarah Reed won the secondplace trophy and Caleb
Prince took third place.
Coquille elementary and
middle school teams com-

Pets of the Week

peted for the Oregon team
championships
at
the
Oregon Convention Center
on March 11. Aaron
Grabinsky and Riley will
started the two-day tournament for the high school
individual championship.
The tournament to determine
the
Oregon
representative for the Barber
National tournament will be Kendra
in April.

The following are cats of the week available for adoption at
Kohl’s Cat House.
Kendra is an adult, spayed, female shorthair. She is beautiMarch 13, 10:58 p.m., violation of
restraining order, 2000 block of ful, curious and looking for a family of her own. She loves to
Inland Drive.
eat, sleep and play.
Kevin is an adult, neutered, male longhair. He has a beauMarch 14, 12:02 a.m., dispute, 800
tiful silver coat and is considered very handsome. He is
block of Vermont Avenue.
affectionate, playful and loves to nap in laps. Call the cat
house to make arrangements to meet him.
Kohl’s Cat House can be reached at 541-294-3876 or
kohlscats@gmail.com.
Visit
them
online
at
www.kohlscats.rescuegroups.org.

Felony
Arrests

Amanda McCarthy — McCarthy was
arrested by Coos Bay police on
March 12 at McKay’s Freshmart
for possession of methamphetamine and third-degree theft.
Beau Stemen — Coos Bay police
arrested Stemen on March 12 in
the 1500 block of Ocean Boulevard on Coos County warrants
charging parole violation and
probation violation on an original charge of first-degree theft.
Samuel V. Goldfaden — Goldfaden
was arrested on March 14 at The
Mill Casino-Hotel for being a
felon in possession of a restricted weapon, carrying a concealed
weapon and probation violation.

The Zonta Club
of the Coos Bay Area
would like to thank
our wonderful community

For your support at our recent fundraiser!
We had a record setting event as we went
BACK IN TIME On February 22, 2013
at the Mill Casino and Hotel.
All of our proceeds from this event will benefit the
Zonta Mission to help women create positive changes
in their lives in many ways, including Community
Grants, Scholarships, and the Little Red School House.
Corporate Sponsors
HOUGH, MACADAM & WARTNIK
Renee Frati, State Farm Insurance
Downtown Health & Fitness
Al Peirce Lumber Co. LLC
Sause Bros. Ocean Towing Co.
Dr. Stephan Groth
Dr. Wallace Webster
Southwest Physical Therapy

Another way to keep the state at bay
In the midst of the current discussions about how we are to deal with
windfall in public revenues to be
generated if the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas export plant is built,
a story in the Oregonian earlier this
week caught our attention.
“Gain Share: Washington County
offered to send money to state school
fund, reduce local split” (March 10,
2014). The story describes how, during the last legislative session, the
county offered to craft a deal with
state lawmakers to protect the millions of dollars in public funds they
are receiving through a tax incentive
program to attract major industry —
in this case, the computer-chip
manufacturer Intel and biotech firm
Genentech.
Washington County saw the writing on the legislative wall. This tax
incentive program, Gain Share, gives
millions of state tax dollars back to
the county in exchange for property
tax breaks given to companies. The
program is also taking millions of
dollars from the state treasury and is
causing lawmakers to re-examine

Our view

What do you think?

Let’s deal openly and honestly
with the state instead of playing a
shell game with public funds.

The World welcomes
letters. Email us at
letters@theworldlink.com.

these kinds of tax schemes. They
didn’t get far into the discussion in
the short session that just ended. But
it’s going to be a major issue in 2015.
That’s why we, and especially the
crafters of the Community
Enhancement Plan for the Bay Area,
should pay close attention.
The crafters of the enhancement
plan can point to any number of
ways that their plan is different from
Gain Share, and they’d be right. Gain
Share is a state program created by
law; the enhancement plan is homegrown. Gain Share redistributes
income tax revenues; the enhancement plan involves property taxes
converted to service fees.
The enhancement plan aims to
funnel money to local schools without triggering a reduction in state
funding in accordance with the

Department of Education’s equalization formula. In that formula, if a
community gives more money to
schools, the state reduces its contribution.
Noble goal. But if successful, the
plan stands to sap the state of millions of dollars that it would have
otherwise pulled back to distribute to
other school districts across the
state.
Negative impacts on state revenues
— that’s where the Community
Enhancement Plan is just like Gain
Share.
That’s not the only concern. If the
state decided to rewrite the rules in
an attempt to count Jordan Cove
service fees as part of the equalization formula, the plan will simply
stop giving the money to local
schools and spend it elsewhere.

How could any school district craft
a budget knowing that the
Community Enhancement Plan
could ull away funding at any time?
Instead of playing a game of “hide
the school funds” from the state, we
should seriously consider what
Washington County already figured
out — strike a deal with the state. Be
upfront, allow the state a cut of the
windfall in exchange for keeping its
greed in check.
Conceptually, such a deal is
absolutely possible, according to the
state’s Legislative Revenue Office. To
do it, though, would require legislative leadership — and a realistic
vision that acknowledges the effect
that millions of dollars can have on a
political body.
There is one more reason to seriously consider going the route of full
disclosure, cooperation and sharing
with the state — we’re still
Oregonians. Portland aside, we’re
part of a larger sovereign state. And
others of our fellow residents in
counties to the south and in the east
have suffered far worse than we.

Cheers
Jeers

&

Learning a trade
Reedsport Community Charter
School teens in the new junior
apprenticeship and shop program
showed what they’ve
learned to visiting state
officials last week. Bran
Avakian, commissioner
of the state Bureau of
Labor and Industries and
state Rep. Caddie McKeown, D-Coos
Bay, toured the facility made possible
with a $250,000 state grant to help
students learn maritime welding,
general welding, fabrication and,
eventually, road construction. All
good skills to make a living with.

Kudos

Pumped up
Wouldn’t you know it was too good
to last — low gasoline prices, that is.
Seasonal increase aside,
there’s also that everpresent global tension
somewhere in the world,
this time between Russia
and the Ukraine. We’ll
pony up as usual, grumble about it and
not do much more – except for you
folks who are driving hybrids.

100 and counting
The years, that is, for Bandon senior
Marjorie Stephenson, who celebrated
100 years on earth Feb. 22.
Descended from settlers
where Bullards Beach
State Park is now, Marjorie
watched Bandon grow,
watched the great fire burn
it down and watched as it rose from the
ashes. That’s a lot of living. Here’s
wishing her a whole lot more.

How low can you go
We can’t say much more about
Gary Brink, the former senior living
facility director sentenced
last week for stealing
money from residents.
Instead, we’ll quote Brink
from a story about the
theft investigation nearly
four years ago in The World before he
was a suspect: “People who steal
from a senior adult (are) about as low
as they can get,” he said.

Hello, City Kitty
Evicted from the North Bend City
Hall, now on the run and
just wanting to be free.
Where is City Kitty? Can
it be that City Kitty is
achieving celebrity status? Is City Kitty even
real? Well, there’s no
Facebook page (not yet, anyway).

Remembering
the fallen
U.S. military death tolls
in Afghanistan as of Friday:

2,176

Grateful for
youth art support
On Friday, March 7, Coos Art
Museum opened two new exhibitions; the Biennial Student Art
Exhibit and the Vision High
School Art Competition.
Six hundred forty-two visitors

came to view the exhibitions on
opening day. These exhibitions
feature the art of South Coast
children and teens and would not
be possible without the generous
support of our three student
exhibition funders; Coquille
Tribal Community Fund, Coos
County Cultural Coalition,

Autzen Foundation and the
sponsor of Vision, Southwestern
Oregon Community College
Foundation.
These funders allow us to
open the museum through April
12 without charging admission
fees. Their gift to the community provides a great opportunity

for everyone to enjoy the museum. The art works produced by
our area youth are beautiful, creative and inspiring. Thanks to
the exhibition funders, there is
no better time to visit your
museum.
Steven Boocks
Coos Bay

Environmental impact process vital
BY RON SADLER
As we all are aware, approval of
the Jordan Cove project by FERC
would have massive effects, both
beneficial and detrimental, on our
area. Therefore, it is important
that the planning process leading
to a go/no go decision be comprehensive and objective.
In years past, decisions made
by federal agencies on projects of
this type were based primarily on
social and economic factors.
Environmental
considerations
were commonly afterthoughts,
often resulting in feeble attempts
at mitigation.
In the federal sector, this all
changed in 1970 with the implementation of the National
Environmental Policy Act, commonly referred to as “NEPA.” This
act specifically instructs all federal
agencies,
boards
and
commissions to “insure that environmental amenities and values
are given appropriate consideration in decision-making along
with economic and technical considerations.” NEPA procedures are
intended to insure that environmental information is available to
both public officials and citizens
before decisions are made and
before actions are taken.
To make sure that all federal
agencies comply with this policy,
NEPA includes an “action-forcing” mechanism that requires
them to prepare an environmental
impact statement (EIS) for all
plans and projects that could have
significant environmental effects.
An EIS must be objectively prepared and not slanted to support
the choice of an agency or an

Your Views
applicant’s preferred alternative
over other reasonable and feasible
alternatives.
It is important to recognize that
a draft environmental impact
statement (DEIS) for Jordan Cove
is not a decision document.
Rather, it is the first of a threestep process which ultimately
leads to a decision.
Step 1 is the issuance of the
DEIS followed by a time period
during which members of the
public may submit their comments relating to the adequacy
and viability of the data collected
and analyzed.
Step 2 is the publication of the
final environmental impact statement (FEIS). All substantive
public comments received on the
DEIS are to be attached to the
FEIS along with the agencies
response thereto.
Following another public
review period, step 3 takes place.
This results in a record of decision
(ROD) being issued which identifies all alternatives considered by
the agency and documents how it
balanced the effects of the social,
economic and environmental
effects of each in reaching its final
decision.
Individual citizen’s review of
the Jordan Cove DEIS can and
should play an important role
within the overall process.
NEPA regulations are quite
specific as to what information,
and in what format, we are enti-

tled to receive in the EIS. Agencies
are urged to use the “standard format for EIS’s” unless there is a
compelling reason to do otherwise. To facilitate your review,
here is a description of the various
sections it should contain as well
as the type of information to be
included in each:
PURPOSE AND NEED: The
EIS must specifically describe the
underlying purpose and need to
which the agency is responding in
describing the proposed action.
ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO
MEET THE IDENTIFIED NEED:
This section is termed “the heart
of the environmental impact
statement.” It should present the
proposal and all alternatives in
comparative form, thus sharply
defining the issues and providing
a clear basis for choice among
options by the decision-maker
and the public.
AFFECTED ENVIRONMENT:
This section should succinctly
describe the current status of the
environment within the area
affected by the proposal. This
critical element describes the
existing baseline conditions
which serve as a starting point for
the description of the direct, indirect and cumulative impacts of
the proposal.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES: This section should
be devoted to a scientific analysis
of the direct and indirect environmental effects of the proposed

action and of each of the alternatives. It forms the basis for the
concise comparison in the “alternatives” section, including a
discussion of the probable beneficial and adverse social, economic
and environmental effects of each
alternative.
It is critical to the long-term
health and well-being of our area
that we each take the time to
review and comment on the Draft
EIS for the Jordan Cove project
when it is issued. As you undertake your review, keep the
following questions in mind:
Does it comply with the purpose and intent of the NEPA
regulations summarized above?
Has it overlooked any social,
economic, or environmental considerations or information that
you are aware of?
Does it attempt to justify a predetermined decision?
Does it slant the analyses to
favor a pre-selected alternative?
Does it include all elements of
the proposal, including the
changes to the 7.3 mile-long
Coos Bay waterway, the access
channel and marine berth, the
transfer pipeline and the South
Dunes power plant?
Responding to a draft EIS is not
the time to attempt to vote for or
against the proposal. Rather, it is
time to demand that we get the
comprehensive and objective
analysis to which we are entitled
under federal law.
Ron Sadler is a retired Chief of
Forestry Planning for the BLM
and holds a master’s degree with
an emphasis on the federal NEPA
process.

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Statesman Journal

DEAR ABBY: I have been
married for 40 years. Like all
married couples, we have had
our ups and downs, but we
have a good marriage. We
have two children and five
grandchildren.
I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change anything, except I never had an
engagement ring. My husband has bought jewelry for
me over the years, but never
what I really want â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a diamond ring.
I have hinted to him over
the last few years, left jewelry
store catalogs and enlisted
my sister-in-law to TELL
him. He can afford it. But he
just wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy one for me.
He has been financially
helpful to our children and is
generous to charity. But
when it comes to this, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
becoming clear that he thinks
I am just not worth it. I feel
unloved and deeply hurt. It
seems my needs always come
last, and this is just one more.
Any comments? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; DISENGAGED IN FLORIDA
DEAR DISENGAGED: Yes.
Diamonds are minerals that
have been marketed to the
public to seem like something more. Do not let this
negatively affect your relationship
with your
DEAR
husband. If
a diamond
ring is what
you want,
then cons i d e r
buying one
for yourself.
You wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be the
first woman
JEANNE
to do it, and
PHILLIPS you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
be the last.
D E A R
ABBY: My girlfriend of 18
months, whom I love with all
my heart, just learned an exboyfriend passed away. They
dated on and off for 10 years,
and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inconsolable.
After their relationship
ended, she married someone
else and divorced. I am having a really hard time with
how sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s handling this. Can
you please help? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; CURRENT MR. RIGHT IN
RHODE ISLAND
DEAR CURRENT MR.
RIGHT: Your girlfriend may
not be mourning the death of
her former flame as much as
sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grieving a burial of 10
years of her history. Give her
time and let her share her
feelings with you. If you do, it
will bring you closer. Do NOT
allow jealousy to enter into
the picture. (Remember, the
man is dead, and YOU are her
future.)
If her deep grief persists,
suggest she get grief counseling. That would be the
most loving and supportive
thing you could do.
DEAR ABBY: I have a
problem dealing with shopping mall kiosk operators.
Many of them are outright
obnoxious. They block your
way and insist that you listen
to their pitch or try their
product. I find I have to avoid
eye contact with them. They
might say something nice as I
walk by, but if I answer, it is a
guaranteed lead-in to a sales
pitch.
I feel bad for not replying,
but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only way. I know
they are trying to make a living, but I can see their
product as I walk by. If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
something Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m interested in,
Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll stop and ask. Otherwise, I
think they should respect my
privacy. Am I wrong for feeling this way? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; BOTHERED
IN TEMPE, ARIZ.
DEAR BOTHERED: Not at
all. If a stranger speaks to
you, no rule of etiquette
compels you to reply. When
one of these salespeople
starts to pitch you, all you
need to say is, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not interested!â&#x20AC;? and keep walking.
if
someone
However,
attempts
to
physically
restrain you, it should be
reported to the mall management because that is going
too far.
Dear Abby is written by
Abigail Van Buren, also
known as Jeanne Phillips, and
was founded by her mother,
Pauline Phillips. Write Dear
Abby at www.DearAbby.com
or P.O. Box 69440, Los
Angeles, CA 90069.

ABBY

SALEM â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lawmakers passed Senate
Bill 1509 during Februaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s session, possibly assuming that they had finally begun
to resolve an almost decade-long debate
about Oregon high schools using
American Indian names and images as
mascots.
But a Portland man announced this
week that he is consulting with attorneys
and planning to file a lawsuit to stop the
new law, which was signed into effect by
Gov. John Kitzhaber on March 6.
Sam Sachs, a racial-justice activist
who also is a Portland Human Rights
Commissioner, said the state Board of
Education is obligated to create a safe
environment for all Oregon children to
learn free of discrimination and bullying.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;But this new law does not get there,â&#x20AC;?
Sachs said of the bill, which will allow a
district school board to enter into an
approved written agreement with federally recognized American Indian tribes in
Oregon to use a mascot that represents, is

associated with, or is significant to the
tribe.
As a result, he is filing a civil-rights
complaint with the Department of
Education. He also is exploring the option
of making a documentary to gain evidence of racism and bias against
American Indians.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I heard Rep. Sherrie Sprenger (R-Scio)
say that the discrimination doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exist,
so I want to show it at athletic events and
elsewhere,â&#x20AC;? Sachs said.
Sprenger said sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little surprised to
learn about the lawsuit since the rulemaking process is just getting started.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hate to see more fighting. This has
always been about building relationships
for me,â&#x20AC;? she said.
Sachs said the issue has been debated
since 2005 in Oregon, and that the
Legislature should have left the state
Board of Educationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan to require all
schools to eliminate the use of American
Indian mascots by 2017 in place.
ccurrie@statesmanjournal.com; (503)
399-6746 or follow on Twitter at
@CATMCurrie.

PORTLAND (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A 27year-old
man
suffered
serious injuries when he was
dumped into the back of a
recycling truck.
Portland police say Liam
Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Grady fell asleep in a bin
filled with cardboard that was
picked up Friday morning.
Once the compactor was
activated, the truck driver
heard screams and stopped
the crusher.
Officers and paramedics
freed Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Grady and he was
taken to a hospital. Police say
his injuries are not lifethreatening.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the second time in less
than two years that a man in
Portland has been thrown
into the back of a truck after
falling asleep in a recycling
bin.

D I G E S T
managers in Oregon to
release fewer young salmon
into the Sandy River this year
to ensure that hatchery fish
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t harm wild fish.
Federal
Judge
Ancer
Haggerty ordered Friday that
the
National
Marine
Fisheries Service allow
releases of no more than
200,000 coho smolts into
the Sandy this year â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
100,000 fewer than planned.
The decision could result
in smaller fish returns in
future years on the Portlandarea river.
The ruling stems from a
lawsuit by two Oregon nonprofit groups that claimed
hatchery fish are straying in
too-large numbers into wild
fish habitat and harming
wild fish.

A memorial service for
Hilda E. Keller Richards, 87,
of Coos Bay will be held at 1
p.m. Friday, March 28, at
Christ Lutheran Church,
1835 N. 15th St., in Coos Bay
with Pastor James Rehley of
St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lutheran Church
officiating. Private inurnment was held at Sumner
Pioneer Cemetery.
Hilda was born April 18,
1926, in Dodge, N.D., to
Wilhelm and Anna Keller.
She was called home to be
with Jesus March 5, 2014, in
Oakland, Ore.
Hilda graduated in 1944
from Dodge High School and
in 1947 from Bismarck
School of Nursing. After
graduating, Hilda moved to
Coos Bay where she met
William Richards Sr. and was
married in June 1949. Hilda
worked at McAuley Hospital
in North Bend and also did
some private care nursing.
She worked with Alfred
French M.D. until he retired
and then worked with day
surgery until her retirement.
She was a very special and

Josephine Lanway
Feb. 6, 1934 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; March 9, 2014

A graveside committal
will be held for Josephine
Lanway, 80, of Coos Bay at 1
p.m. Saturday, March 15, at
Sunset
Memorial
Park
Cemetery, 63060 Millington
Frontage Road in Coos Bay. A
public visitation will be held
from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday,
March 14, at Coos Bay
Chapel, 685 Anderson Ave.
Josephine was born Feb.
6, 1934, in Pocatello, Idaho,
to Genaro Mena and Carmen
(Gutierrez)
Mena.
She
passed away March 9, 2014,
in Eugene.
Josephine married Donald
L. Lanway Aug. 16, 1952, in
Elko, Nev. Together they
raised two sons, Donald and
Edward. Josephine was a
member of the Christian
Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club, Greenacres
Grange and the Coos County
Election Board. She also
taught preschool-age chil-

caring nurse and her patients
were a priority while she was
working. Hilda was active in
the Nurses Association and
the Blood Mobile with
American Red Cross. She
also loved and looked forward to her weekly Bible
studies with the ladies of her
church. She loved the Lord.
Hilda enjoyed the outdoors. She looked forward to
her camping trips and fishing
when she could. She took
great pride in the care of her
flowers. Anyone who knew
her would ooh and aah over
how beautiful her flowers
were and how they just seem
to grow and flourish.
She was a much-loved
lady and will be truly missed
by her family and friends.
Hilda is survived by her
daughter, Charis; sister,
Lorraine; daughter-in-law,
granddaughters,
Melody;
Jessica and fiancĂŠ, Nick,
Amberline and husband,
Roy; grandsons, Jeremy and
wife, Valarie, Don and wife,
Susie; eight great-grandchildren;
and
one
great-great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Bill; sons,
Bill Jr. and Michael; five

dren at Sunday school and
volunteered at the South
Coast Hospice Thriftstore.
She was a member of the
Emmanuel Baptist Church in
Coquille.
She
enjoyed
sewing, decorating and
craftmaking.
Josephine will be dearly
missed by all of her family
and friends.
Josephine is survived by
her husband of 61 years,
Donald L. Lanway of Coos
Bay; son, Edward Lanway of
Coos Bay; son, Donald E.
Lanway of Coos Bay; sister,
Margaret Sierra Ramos; sister, Margaret Mena Jones;
brother, John Mena; granddaughters, Nicole Fitzhugh
of Portland and Samantha
Dawn Lanway of Coos Bay;
and numerous extended
family members.
Josephine was preceded in
death by her parents, Genaro
and Carmen Mena; and her
siblings, Manuel Sierra,

Hilda Richards
brothers; two sisters; as well
as many aunts, uncles and
other precious friends and
relatives.
Memorial contributions
in Hildaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name may be made
to a local area hospice of
choice or Christ Lutheran
Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School, 1835 N.
15th St., Coos Bay, OR
97420.
Arrangements are under
the care of Coos Bay Chapel,
541-267-3131.
Friends and family are
encouraged to sign the online
guestbook at www.coosbaand
yareafunerals.com
www.theworldlink.com.

Arrangements are pending
with
Amling/Schroeder
Funeral Service of Coquille,
541-396-3846.
Ruth Isadora Holbrook â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
90, of Coquille, died March
14, 2014, in Coquille.
Arrangements are pending
with Myrtle Grove Funeral

At her request, no services
will be held for Victoria
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vickiâ&#x20AC;? Hansen, 92, of Coos
Bay. Her family will host a
private celebration of her life
later this year. Private cremation rites were held at
Ocean
View
Memory
Gardens in Coos Bay.
Vicki, also known as Gord
or Gordo, was born Nov. 5,
1921, in North Bend, the fifth
child of Peter Susick and
Matilda (Brozavich) Susick.
She passed
away peacefully March
8, 2014, at
her home in
Coos Bay.
V i c k i
grew up in
North Bend
and gradu- Vicki Hansen
ated from
North Bend High School,
Class of 1939. She married
Jerome â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dekeâ&#x20AC;? Hansen and
later gave birth to three children. The first several years
of her married life she lived
in Florida where Deke was a
pilot in the U.S. Air Force.
Deke and Vicki returned to
the Pacific Northwest when
Deke entered dental school in
Portland. Upon Dekeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graduation, he and Vicki
re-established themselves in
Coos Bay to raise their family. Deke preceded Vicki in
death in December 1970.
Vicki was a faithful and
loyal daughter, sister, moth-

Service of Coquille, 541396-3158.
Phillip N. Bowman â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 65,
of North Bend, died March
13, 2014, in Coos Bay.
Arrangements are pending
with Coos Bay Chapel, 541267-3131.

A memorial service will be
held for Delmer â&#x20AC;&#x153;Delâ&#x20AC;?
Bowers, 94, of Coos Bay at 11
a.m. Saturday, March 22, at
the Madison
S t r e e t
Community
Church, 417
Madison St.
in Empire,
with
Bob
Pedigo officiating.
Cremation Delmer Bowers
rites were
held at Ocean View
Crematory in Coos Bay.
Delmer â&#x20AC;&#x153;Delâ&#x20AC;? Bowers was
born June 19, 1919, in Cottage
Grove, the son of Benjamin
and Laura (Swindle) Bowers.
He died March 9, 2014, in
Coos Bay.
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Cottage Grove High School
with his brother, George and
sister, Evelyn. He married
once to Ruth Dabbs, they had
two sons, Gregory and
Rodney. He retired from
Coos County waste treatment plant.
In his adventerous life he
was especially proud to be a
veteran of World War II during which he was stationed in
the South Pacific as an airplane mechanic.
He is survived by many
friends and family who are
proud to have been part of his
long life. He will be remembered as a true gentleman.
Arrangements are under
the direction of North Bend
Chapel, 541-756-0440.
Friend and family are
encouraged to sign the online
guest book at www.coosbayareafunerals.com
and
www.theworldlink.com

er, grandmother and friend.
She loved to play cards with
her siblings and friends, and
took several short jaunts to
Reno and Las Vegas. She was
a hard worker with a strong
work ethic and continued
working full time until
retirement at age 72. She
enjoyed the outdoors and
gardening, and taking walks
around the neighborhood.
Vicki is survived by her
son, Mike Hansen of Coos
Bay; son, Bob Hansen and his
wife, Debbie of Elmira; sonin-law, Bill Landles of
Eugene; grandchildren, Lisa
Landles Morgan and her
husband, David of Eugene,
Jodie Cline and her husband,
Blake of West Virginia, and
Charlie Hansen and his wife,
Shirley of Virginia; and her
g rea t - g ra n d c h i l d re n ,
Isabelle, Sophia, Jonathan,
Abby, Kyla, Colton, Kennedy
and Emma, who will be
arriving in July.
Vicki was preceded in
death by her parents, Peter
and Matilda Susick; husband, Jerome M. Hansen; her
siblings; and her daughter,
Cathy Landles.
Memorial contributions
may be made in Vickiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s honor
to South Coast Hospice,
1620 Thompson Road, Coos
Bay, OR 97420.
Arrangements are under
the care of Coos Bay Chapel,
541-267-3131.
Friends and family are
encouraged to sign the online
guestbook at www.coosbayareafunerals.com
and
www.theworldlink.com.

Nation
Stepmom:
Soldier’s
daughter
was hit often
HONOLULU (AP) — The
stepmother of a 5-year-old
girl who prosecutors allege
was beaten to death by her
father testified Friday that
she and the former Hawaii
soldier abused the girl regularly and that they pulled her
out of school so that others
wouldn’t see the signs the
abuse left on the child’s
body.
Delilah Williams testified
for the prosecution in the
capital murder trial against
Naeem Williams that they
decided to pull the girl, Talia,
out of elementary school
because they worried that
school officials would notice
the abuse and have them
arrested.
“She started having marks
on her body,” Delilah
Williams said, noting that
she and Naeem Williams
dressed the girl in clothes
that covered the marks while
the special-needs child was
still enrolled in school then
left her at home by herself
after they pulled her from
classes.
The testimony will satisfy
terms of a plea deal the stepmother
made
with
prosecutors in which she
acknowledged her role in
killing the child as part of a
pattern and practice of
assault and torture. The
agreement calls for a 20-year
sentence.

Attacked immigrants
were surrendering
NATIONAL

The Associated Press

A vehicle crushed by debris from a building explosion is seen on the street Friday in New York. Workers continued to treat it as a rescue operation, holding onto the possibility of finding survivors from a blast that
brought down two apartment buildings and killed at least eight people.

8 dead in NY gas blast as
rescue operation goes on
NEW YORK (AP) — The bodies of all eight
people reported missing after a deadly gas
explosion destroyed two buildings have been
recovered, the city fire commissioner said
Friday, but workers are treating the scene as a
rescue operation in case there are unknown
survivors in the rubble.
Salvatore Cassano said no one else is
known to be unaccounted for but workers
will continue to scour the debris from the
flattened apartment buildings for victims.
More than 60 people were injured by
Wednesday morning’s explosion, and more
than 100 others were displaced.
Cassano said about 70 percent of the
debris had been cleared at the upper
Manhattan blast site. But he said the pace
was expected to quicken after firefighters
removed a hazardous rear wall.

He predicted detectives and fire marshals
would gain access to the East Harlem buildings’ basements by midday Saturday to begin
the investigation into what caused the explosion.
“Right now we are in the process of
removing the final amount of debris,”
Cassano said. “We should be moving much
more quickly now.”
The rescue effort continued as federal
investigators announced that gas was
detected in underground tests of the site in
the hours after the explosion, lending support to the hypothesis a gas leak may have
been the cause.
The National Transportation Safety Board,
which investigates pipeline accidents, will
conduct an inquiry after police and fire officials locate what might have sparked the blast.

MISSION, Texas (AP) —
An immigrant woman, her
daughter and another girl
who said they were kidnapped and assaulted by a
border patrol agent were in
the process of surrendering
to the agent when their
ordeal began, another Border
Patrol agent and a federal law
enforcement official said
Friday.
Agent
Esteban
Manzanares, who officials
say committed suicide early
Thursday
morning,
is
accused of driving the three
away from the river after
they
surrendered
and
assaulting them. The other
agent said Manzanares cut
the wrists of the adult
woman,
assaulted
one
teenager in the group, and
then fled the area with a second teenage girl.
The Honduran embassy in
Washington, D.C., said the
three are a mother, her underage daughter and another girl
not related to them. The FBI
has said the three were in the
U.S. illegally.

Enough have enrolled
for stable health care
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Barack Obama says
enough people have signed
up for health care to make his
signature law work.
Obama tells medical web
site WebMD that the 4.2 million people enrolled for this
year, quote, “is already large
enough that I’m confident

D I G E S T
the program will be stable.”
The president acknowledges in an interview posted
Friday that the mix of people
who sign up is actually more
important than the number.
More young and healthy
people need to enroll to offset the cost of caring for
older, sicker patients.
Obama’s
30-minute
interview with the health
information web site is part
of his campaign to get more
Americans to enroll before
the March 31 deadline to get
coverage for this year.

US producer prices
dip in February
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The
prices
companies
receive for their goods and
services fell slightly in
February, the latest sign that
inflation is tame.
The producer price index,
which
measures
price
changes before they reach
the consumer, dropped 0.1
percent in February, the
Labor Department said Friday. That’s the first decline
since November. A sharp fall
in the price markups by
wholesalers and retailers
pushed down the index.
Producer prices rose 0.9
percent from 12 months ago.
That’s the smallest 12-month
increase since last May.
Wholesale food and energy prices increased, as did
the cost of pharmaceuticals.
Excluding the volatile categories of food, energy and
retailer and wholesaler profit
margins, core prices ticked
up 0.1 percent.

NY girl, 5, spends day
at wrong school
SCHENECTADY,
N.Y.
(AP) — Officials at an upstate
New York school district say
a kindergartner spent a day
at the wrong school after
getting on the wrong bus.
Schenectady city school
district officials say the
series of mistakes began
Wednesday morning when
the 5-year-old girl boarded
the wrong bus, which was
driven by a substitute driver.
At the school, teachers
were expecting a new firstgrader and asked the girl if
she was that student. The
girl said she was and spent
the day answering to the noshow first-grader’s name.
The mistake wasn’t discovered
until
the
kindergartner’s
mother
called her school to report
that her daughter didn’t get
off the bus that afternoon.
School officials say they
located her a short time later.
The district says it’s reexamining its bus and new
student procedures.

A MINUTE
MESSAGE
From

NORM
RUSSELL

Lost Plane
How can a 777 airplane
disappear with 239 passengers
aboard? We live in a world where
it would seem like that would be
an impossibility. Even if it was
at the bottom of the ocean, the
technology is in place to locate
such things. Yet, here we are
several days removed and still no
airplane. Imagine the suffering
that is being experienced by those
who have loved ones on that
plane. I pray it will be found soon
so that families can have some
sense of closure.
Maybe we should look at this
as a reminder that we humans
have our limitations. We have
put men on the moon, circled
the earth with satellites, and can
travel faster than the speed of
sound, but we cannot find a 777
jet.
God created our world and
He alone is able to create out
of nothing, something. He is
unlimited in power, knowledge,
and can hear even the faintest of
cries for help. God knows where
that plane is, and maybe we as a
nation should humble ourselves
and call for a day of prayer if
perhaps He will have mercy on
the families and show us where
it is.
Come worship with us
Sunday.

CHURCH OF CHRIST
2761 Broadway, North Bend, OR

541-756-4844

Saturday, March 15,2014 • The World • A7

World
Man arrested
in Anne Frank
vandalism

US, West brace for Crimea
vote to leave Ukraine

TOKYO (AP) — Police on
Friday arrested a man for
allegedly tearing pages out of
books related to Anne Frank
at a Tokyo library.
More than 300 books
related to the Holocaust victim, including “The Diary of
a Young Girl,” have been
found vandalized recently at
libraries across Tokyo.
Tokyo police said the man,
36, sneaked into a library on
Feb. 5 and ripped pages from
23 Frank-related books,
including at least one copy of
the diary. Some of the ripped
pages were found in a plastic
bag at an unidentified house
in Tokyo.
Police said the suspect
admitted to ripping the pages
out of the books, but that his
motive was unclear.

LONDON (AP) — The West braced
Friday for a vote by the Crimean Peninsula
to secede from Ukraine — and likely be
annexed by Russia — as the last attempt
for diplomacy broke down despite threats
of costly international sanctions and
other imminent penalties against
Moscow for forcibly challenging a proEuropean government in Kiev.
Russia’s top diplomat said Moscow will
make no decisions about Crimea’s future
until after a local referendum Sunday to
decide whether it should remain part of
Ukraine.
But U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
said the vote’s results are all but a foregone conclusion, and urged Russia’s
parliament against accepting any offer to
claim Crimea as its own.
“We believe that a decision to move
forward by Russia to ratify that vote officially within the Duma would, in fact, be a

Malaysian Air
piracy theory
gains credence
system on the jet quit. Such a
gap would be unlikely in the
case of an in-flight catastrophe.
A Malaysian official, who
also declined to be identified
because he is not authorized
to brief the media, said only a
skilled aviator could navigate
the plane the way it was
flown after its last confirmed
location over the South
China Sea. The official said it
had been established with a
“more than 50 percent”
degree of certainty that military radar had picked up the
missing plane after it
dropped off civilian radar.
Acting transport minister,
Hishammuddin
Hussein,
said the country had yet to
determine what happened to
the plane with 239 people
aboard.
He said investigators were
still trying to establish with
certainty that military radar
records of a blip moving west
across the Malay Peninsula
into the Strait of Malacca
showed Flight MH370.
“I will be the most happiest person if we can actually
confirm that it is the MH370,
then we can move all (search)
assets from the South China
Sea to the Strait of Malacca,”
he told reporters. Until then,
he said, the international
search effort would continue
expanding east and west.

KUALA
LUMPUR,
Malaysia (AP) — Piracy and
pilot suicide are among the
scenarios under study as
investigators grow increasingly certain the missing
Malaysian
Airlines
jet
changed course and headed
west after its last radio contact
with
air
traffic
controllers.
The latest evidence suggests the plane didn’t
experience a catastrophic
incident over the South China
Sea as was initially suspected.
Some experts theorize that
one of the pilots, or someone
else with flying experience,
hijacked the plane or committed suicide by plunging
the jet into the sea.
A U.S. official said Friday in
Washington that investigators
are examining the possibility
of “human intervention” in
the plane’s disappearance,
adding it may have been “an
act of piracy.” The official,
who wasn’t authorized to talk
to the media and spoke on
condition of anonymity,said it
also was possible the plane
may have landed somewhere.
While other theories are
still being examined, the
official said key evidence
suggesting human intervention is that contact with the
Boeing 777’s transponder
stopped about a dozen minutes before a messaging

backdoor annexation of Crimea,” Kerry
told reporters in London after six hours of
talks Friday with Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov.
Kerry instead called on Moscow to support broad autonomy for Crimea — still as
part of Ukraine — instead of a move by the
strategic peninsula to secede. And he predicted the probability of “if the people of
Crimea vote overwhelmingly, as one suspects they will, to affiliate or be associated
with Russia.”
Crimea, which is Ukraine’s strategic
Black Sea peninsula of 2 million people,
has a majority ethnic Russian population
and hosts a large Russian naval base. The
West and Ukraine’s upstart government in
Kiev believes the region’s vote to secede is
unconstitutional. But Moscow doesn’t
recognize leaders in Kiev as legitimate
since they pushed Ukraine’s pro-Russian
president from power last month.

After Crimea,
who’s next?
BUCHAREST, Romania
(AP) — Broken promises of
help from the West. A tragic
history of Russian invasion
that goes back centuries. A
painful awareness that conflicts in this volatile region are
contagious. These are the factors that make nations across
Eastern Europe watch events
in Ukraine — and tremble.
From leaders to ordinary
people, there is a palpable
sense of fear that Russia,
seemingly able to thumb its
nose at Western powers at
will, may seek more opportunities for incursions in its
former imperial backyard.
The question many people
are asking is: Who’s next?
“There is first of all fear ...
that there could be a possible
contagion,” Romanian Foreign

Minister Titus Corlatean told
The Associated Press in an
interview.
“Romania
is
extremely preoccupied.”
Specifically, concerns run
high that after taking over
the strategic peninsula of
Crimea, Russian President
Vladimir Putin may be
tempted to try a land grab in
Moldova, where Russian
troops are stationed in the
breakaway
province
of
Trans-Dniester. It’s one of
several “frozen conflicts”
across Eastern Europe whose
ranks Crimea — many in the
West now say with resignation — has joined.
History feeds skepticism
that NATO would come to
the aid of eastern member
nations in the event of a
Russian attack.

Continued from Page A1
Wetherell in September 2013.
“I knew Phil to be one of
the hardest working people
I’ve ever met,” said the Rev.
Jon Strasman of Gloria Dei
Lutheran Church, which
Bowman attended with his
family. “I think the whole
family is known for that.”
Bowman was well-known
around North Bend for driving the streetsweeper and
regularly volunteering his
time with other city projects.
He also spent much of the
past two decades serving on
the North Bend School Board.
“He had a very public
presence,” Strasman said.
“He was constantly serving
others.”
By Friday morning, showings of support for the family
had begun popping up
around the Bay Area, including a sign in front of Alder
Smokehouse reading, “Our
thoughts and prayers to the
Bowman family.”
Bowman is survived by his
wife, Cheryl, and four children.
Funeral arrangements are
pending through Coos Bay
Chapel and Gloreia Dei
Lutheran Church.
Reporter Thomas Moriarty
can be reached at 541-2691222, ext. 240, or by email at
thomas.moriarty@theworldlink.com. Follow him on
T w i t t e r :
@ThomasDMoriarty.

LAWSUIT
Three tracts
are being sold
Continued from Page A1
Three parcels — the Adams
Ridge Tract 1, Benson Ridge
and East Hakki Ridge — are
currently being offered in a
sealed bid auction through
Reality Marketing Northwest.
Current and prospective
bidders listed in the Cascadia
Wildlands letter include
Roseburg Forest Products,
Georgia Pacific and Lone Rock
Timber.
Reporter Thomas Moriarty
can be reached at 541-2691222, ext. 240, or by email at
thomas.moriarty@theworldlink.com. Follow him on
T w i t t e r :
@ThomasDMoriarty.

Newport
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Scientists have crowdsourced a network of
volunteers taking water
samples at beaches along the
West Coast in hopes of capturing a detailed look at low
levels of radiation drifting
across the ocean since the
2011 tsunami that devastated
a nuclear power plant in
Japan.
With the risk to public
health extremely low, the
effort is more about perfecting computer models that
will better predict chemical
and radiation spills in the
future than bracing for a
threat, researchers say.
Federal agencies are not
sampling at the beach.
Washington also doesn’t test
ocean water for radiation,
said
Washington
of
Health
Department
spokesman Donn Moyer. The
state of Oregon is sampling,
but looking for higher radiation levels closer to federal
health standards, said state
health physicist Daryl Leon.
The March 2011 tsunami
off Japan flooded the
Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear
plant, causing radiationcontaminated water to spill
into the Pacific. Airborne

Ed Makaruk works on an urban search training session Wednesday morning in Empire with his bloodhound
Freddy.

TRACKER
Dogs track better
an hour later
Continued from Page A1
The hounds, however, follow the odor emitted by
decaying skin cells, which
human beings shed constantly throughout the day,
allowing them to identify
specific people by scent.

“A trailing dog like a
bloodhound will actually
work better an hour later,”
Makaruk said.
The dogs are so effective at
finding suspects and missing
persons, Snodgrass said that
832 even has dogs with the
FBI.
“Most of our guys, when
they retire, have 120, 150, 170
catches on them,” Snodgrass
said.
For how useful the breed
has proven, both Snodgrass

and Makaruk said that breeders and handlers as a whole
have only a basic understanding of how the dogs work.
Humans, they say, have
very little to teach the dogs.
“If anything, I’m the student,” Makaruk said.
Reporter Thomas Moriarty
can be reached at 541-2691222, ext. 240, or by email at
t h o m a s . m o r i a rt y @ t h e worldlink.com. Follow him on
T w i t t e r :
@ThomasDMoriarty.

South Coast

Willamette Valley

Today: Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly
sunny, with a high near 62. South southeast wind 5 to 11 mph.
Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of
rain. Patchy fog . Otherwise, mostly
cloudy, with a low around 46. South
wind 9 to 14 mph.
Sunday: A 30 percent chance of rain.
Patchy fog. Partly sunny, with a high
near 59. Southwest wind 8 to 11 mph.
Sunday Night: Rain. Low around 45. West
southwest wind 9 to 11 mph. Chance of
precipitation is 90%.
Monday: A 50 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 54.

Today: Patchy fog. Mostly sunny, with a
high near 67. Southeast wind 5 to 7 mph.
Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a
low around 44. West wind 5 to 7 mph.
Sunday: A 40 percent chance of rain.
Mostly cloudy, with a high near 62.
South wind 5 to 7 mph.
Sunday Night: Rain. Low around 41. West
wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation
is 90%.

Curry County Coast
Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near
59. Calm wind becoming west southwest
around 6 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night: Patchy fog. Otherwise,
partly cloudy, with a low around 46.
Southwest wind around 6 mph.
Sunday: Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly
sunny, with a high near 59. Light and
variable wind.
Sunday Night: Rain. Low around 46.
West southwest wind around 9 mph.
Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Rogue Valley

SCCF
Port meeting is
7 p.m. Wednesday
Continued from Page A1
directors, ratify the foundation’s updated bylaws (read
pages 36-45 in the port commission’s agenda online at
www.theworldlink.com),
and each appoint one member to serve alongside the
three initial directors.
The foundation will have a
seven-member board of
directors, according to the
proposed bylaws.
If the port commissioners
approve the motion, port
staff will start asking for
statements of interest from
candidates to be appointed in
addition to the seven members in the future.
All of this will be decided
at the port commission’s
meeting 7 p.m. Wednesday
in port commission cham-

bers, 125 Central Ave., Suite
230, in Coos Bay.
The majority of the
bylaws’ revisions are in sections
detailing
the
foundation’s members and
directors:
■ “Members” are defined
as the four enterprise zone
sponsors (if they consent, of
course).
■ “Directors” are defined
as the foundation’s board of
directors. For the moment,
that’s Lansing, Verger and
Whitty (the bylaws call them
“non-public directors”).
The proposed bylaws state
the members will meet the
first Wednesday in March
every year to discuss the
foundation’s activities and
financial
condition.
Immediately after, the directors will have their annual
meeting.
Each enterprise zone
sponsor would need to
appoint one person (not one
of their own councilors or

commissioners) to serve as a
foundation director for a
two-year term. These are
called “public directors” in
the bylaws. Other public
directors can be added to the
board later on.
The directors can be reelected, but each director
can’t serve for more than 12
years.
Whenever one of the three
non-public directors vacates
his or her seat, the remaining
directors can appoint someone to fill the vacancy.
The foundation can only
make grants to other charitable organizations or to
governmental bodies, which
includes Coos County, a
school district, an education
service district or a city,
according to the bylaws.
Reporter Chelsea Davis
can be reached at 541-2691222, ext. 239, or by email at
chelsea.davis@theworldlink.com. Follow her on
Twitter: @ChelseaLeeDavis.

Nuclear Engineering and
Radiation Health Physics at
What we don’t really know is how
Oregon State University. The
Rossi model predicts levels a
fast and how much is being
little higher than the fallout
transported across the Pacific.
from nuclear weapons testing in the 1960s. The
Ken Buesseler, Senior scientist
Behrens model predicts
lower levels like those seen in
the ocean in the 1990s, after
radiation was detected in
In an email from Japan, the radiation had decayed
milk and rainwater in the Buesseler said he hopes the and dissipated.
The crowdsourcing raised
U.S. soon afterward. But sampling will go on every
things move much more two or three months for the $29,945 from 225 people,
enough to establish about 30
slowly in the ocean.
next two to three years.
“We know there’s conTwo different models sampling sites in Alaska,
Columbia,
taminated water coming out have been published in peer- British
of there, even today,” Ken reviewed scientific journals Washington and California,
Buesseler, a senior scientist predicting the spread of according to Woods Hole.
at
the
Woods
Hole radioactive isotopes of The website so far has not
Oceanographic Institution in cesium and iodine from reported any radiation.
Sara Gamble of Renton,
Massachusetts, said in a Fukushima. One, known as
video appealing for volun- Rossi et al, shows the leading Wash., the mother of a
teers and contributions.
edge of the plume hitting the young child, raised $500
In fact, it is the biggest West Coast from southeast because she thinks it is
pulse of radioactive liquid Alaska
to
Southern important to know what is
dropped in the ocean ever, he California by April. The really going on. Woods Hole
said.
other, known as Behrens et sent her a bucket, a funnel, a
“What we don’t really al, shows the plume hitting clipboard, a UPS shipping
know is how fast and how Southeast Alaska, British label, instructions and a big
much is being transported Columbia and Washington red plastic container for her
sample.
across the Pacific,” he added. by March 2016.
She went to Ocean Shores,
“Yes, the models tell us it will
The isotopes have been
be safe. Yes, the levels we detected at very low levels at Wash., a couple of weeks
expect off the coast of the a Canadian sampling point ago, collected her sample
U.S. and Canada are expect- far out to sea earlier than the and shipped it off. No results
ed to be low. But we need models predicted, but not have come back yet.
To do another sample, she
measurements, especially yet reported at the beach,
now as the plume begins to said Kathryn A. Higley, head will have to raise another
arrive along the West Coast.” of the Department of $500.

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Today: Sunny, with a high near 72. Light
and variable wind.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low
around 40. Northwest wind around 6 mph.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near
72. Calm wind.
Sunday Night: Rain likely. Mostly cloudy,
with a low around 41. West southwest wind
around 7 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.

Central Douglas County
Today: Patchy fog. Mostly sunny, with a
high near 68. Calm wind.
Saturday Night: Patchy fog. Partly
cloudy, with a low around 43. West wind
5 to 7 mph.
Sunday: Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly
sunny, with a high near 65. Calm wind.
Sunday Night: Rain. Low around 42. West
wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of rain is 80%.

Portland area
Today: A 20 percent chance of rain.
Mostly cloudy, with a high near 64.
Southeast wind 3 to 8 mph.
Saturday Night: A 40 percent chance of
rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around
48. South wind around 6 mph.
Sunday: Rain. High near 59. South southwest wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of
precipitation is 90%.
Sunday Night: Rain. Low around 41.
Southwest wind around 8 mph. Chance
of precipitation is 90%.

North Coast
Today: A 40 percent chance of rain.
Cloudy, with a high near 53. South wind
10 to 20 mph.
Saturday Night: Rain. The rain could be
heavy at times. Low around 48. South
wind 18 to 21 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.
Sunday: Rain. High near 51. Southwest
wind 11 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Sunday Night: Rain. Low around 42. West
wind 8 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as
22 mph. Chance of rain is 90%.

Central Oregon
Today: Sunny, with a high near 63.
South wind 6 to 14 mph.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low
around 34. Southwest wind 7 to 14 mph.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near
62. Southwest wind 11 to 17 mph.
Sunday Night: A chance of rain. Mostly
cloudy, with a low around 35. Southwest
wind around 14 mph. Chance of rain is
50%.

The Tide Tables
To find the tide prediction for your area, add or
subtract minutes as indicated. To find your estimated tidal height, multiply the listed height by
the high or low ratio for your area. Tide ratios
and variances based out of Charleston.

Preserve’s proceeds top $1 million
Resort’s par-3 course
generates $600,000 for
WRCA during second
year of operation
■

BY JOHN GUNTHER
The World

BANDON — The highly
acclaimed Bandon Preserve par-3
golf course at Bandon Dunes has
proven wildly popular, and that is
great news for local fish populations and other tourism and environmental efforts.
On Thursday, Bandon Dunes
owner Mike Keiser presented a
check for $600,000 to the Wild
Rivers Coast Alliance.
That makes more than $1 million Bandon Preserve has generated for WRCA in its first two years.
All proceeds from the course go
toward the efforts of WRCA.

“Let clean economic development and tourism bloom on the
South Coast,” Keiser said. “Most
of America doesn’t know how
beautiful the South Coast is.”
Bandon Dunes General
Manager Hank Hickox said 13,000
rounds were played on Bandon
Preserve in its first partial year of
operation and another 19,000 last
year. Projections are for 20,000
rounds this year and in future
years, with golfers paying $100 a
round.
“It’s a living, breathing creature that does a lot of things,”
Hickox said.
WRCA has been involved in a
number of different environmental and economic projects, said
Executive Director Jim Seeley.
“Our No. 1 effort is to convene
like-minded people and groups to
accomplish similar goals,” Seeley
said.
That includes formation of the
Gorse Action Group, a regional

effort to attack gorse in Coos,
Curry and Douglas counties.
WRCA also is working with
fish groups to improve the fishing
industry. The group has helped
fund in-stream habitat projects on
a number of rivers and streams
from Bandon south to the OregonCalifornia border, including
planting 10,000 riparian trees
over a two-year period.
Another group WRCA has
helped is Washed Ashore, a
Bandon organization that helps
shed a light on beach and ocean
pollution by building sculptures
with items found on the beaches.
WRCA helped Washed Ashore
move into Old Town Bandon,
where it has better exposure.
“From what we’ve seen, it’s a
big eye-opener in the community
for all ages,” Seeley said.
Meanwhile, 12 of Washed
Ashore’s sculptures will be on display at the three Sea World parks.
“Their mission is art to save the

sea,” Seeley said. “They are opening people’s eyes through their
artwork.”
Meanwhile, a big focus of
WRCA includes promoting
tourism.
“We’re working to develop a
regional tourism outreach opportunity to get Oregon more on the
map than it is,” Seeley said.
“Wonderful generosity makes
lots of good things happen for
communities,” WRCA Chairman
Harry Hoogesteger said.
The popularity of Bandon
Preserve, a 13-hole golf course,
has helped tremendously.
Golf publications have named
Bandon Preserve the top short
course in the United States and
also the No. 3 most fun course in
the country behind Pebble Beach
and Old Macdonald, one of the
four 18-hole courses at Bandon
Dunes.
SEE PRESERVE | B2

Spring sports kicks off Monday
for high schools up and down the
South Coast.
Action begins with the Civil
War when North Bend and
Marshfield girls tennis face off at 3
p.m. Monday on the outdoor
courts at the Boys and Girls Club
of Southwestern Oregon. The boys
teams from the two schools will
compete Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. at
North Bend.
Baseball and softball also starts
up Monday with Myrtle Point
traveling to Reedsport at 4:30 p.m.
The Braves then travel to
Bandon on the next day for the
Tigers’ season opener in both
sports at 4:30 p.m. Coquille will
start the year at North Douglas at 4
p.m. Tuesday in softball and baseball.
Gold Beach baseball also will
have a quick start to the season.
The Panthers travel to BrookingsHarbor on Monday then host
Glendale the following day.
Marshfield’s baseball season
kicks off Tuesday, with the Pirates
heading to Hidden Valley. Siuslaw
visits Creswell the same day, with
both games starting at 4:30 p.m.
North Bend baseball starts it
season at Churchill on Wednesday
at 4 p.m.
The boys golf season starts
Wednesday with several schools
including North Bend, Marshfield
and Bandon facing off at Bandon
Crossings at 11 a.m.
The track season will begin
with two different meets on
Thursday. In the first ever
Marshfield Icebreaker, Powers,
Reedsport, Bandon, Camas Valley,
Rogue River, Hidden Valley, North
Valley and Willamette will compete in Coos Bay at 1:30 p.m.
Siuslaw will have its annual
icebreaker with North Bend,
Coquille, Douglas and Elmira joining the Vikings at 4 p.m. in
Florence.
The final winter sport concludes next week when Marshfield
and Bandon compete in the state
dance competetion in Portland.
Marshfield holds its annual dress
rehearsal at 7 p.m. Monday.

Portland center Robin Lopez puts up a hook shot over New Orleans forward
Anthony Davis during the second half Friday.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Portland
was trailing by three points with
under five minutes left in the game
and Damian Lillard was determined
to keep the Trail Blazers’ losing streak
from reaching five games.
Lillard nailed a 3-pointer from the
corner to tie the game and give
Portland the momentum it needed to
snap its four-game skid with a 111103 victory over the New Orleans
Pelicans on Friday night.
Lillard finished with 27 points,
Nicolas Batum added 22 and Wesley
Matthews had 20 for the Trail
Blazers, who played without All-Star
LaMarcus Aldridge. He was sitting
out with a back contusion.
Anthony Davis scored a careerhigh 36 points for New Orleans and
Brian Roberts added 19. Tyreke Evans
and Eric Gordon added 16 apiece
after both missed one game because
of illness.
Portland was trailing 94-89 with
7:30 to go in the fourth quarter when
Lillard scored the game’s next seven
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“Up to that point I hadn’t been
able to get it going the entire game,”
Lillard said. “... Coach Stotts just
kept deciding to put me in ball
screens and in situations where I
could attack; especially late in the
game. My shot started to fall. I was
able to make some plays and get it
going a little bit.”
Wrapping up a five-game road
trip, Portland opened the game on a
10-2 run. From there it became a
back-and-forth affair that featured
18 lead changes with no team ever
having a double-digit advantage.
Davis’ alley-oop dunk with under 3
seconds to go in the half gave the
Pelicans a 55-53 lead at the break.
“A much-needed win needless to
say,” Stotts said. “I was proud of the
way we competed and kept focused.
... Everybody that was on the floor
tonight really had an impact on the
game.”
The game was tied 75-75 with 3:36
to go in the third quarter when the
Pelicans went on a 6-0 run to grab an
81-75 lead. They stayed in front until
midway through the final quarter,
when Lillard scored 16 points to lead
Portland to victory.
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particularly after his jumper gave
Portland the lead for good in the
fourth quarter, Lillard said the victory was crucial to his team’s postseason hopes.
“I mean we had lost four games in
a row,” he said. “Then we finally were
able to close a team out in the fourth
quarter and come away with the victory. It was a great feeling.”
New Orleans coach Monty
Williams wasn’t surprised by
Lillard’s performance.
“You know what he’s capable of
doing,” he said. “Some of the stuff is
un-guardable like the last 3-pointer
he made. Our guys know that when
he’s going left late game, you know
he’s going to raise up. We just didn’t
execute that well. We’ve played
against him a number of times the
past two years so you’ve got to know
what to expect.”
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Sports

Knicks
hire Phil
Jackson

Arizona
to face
UCLA
in final

BY TIM REYNOLDS
The Associated Press
Phil Jackson won NBA
titles as a player and a coach.
He’ll now try winning as an
executive.
And this quest will take
him back to where his career
began.
Jackson has agreed to run
the New York Knicks’ front
office and will be formally
introduced by the team at a
news conference at Madison
Square Garden on Tuesday
morning, a person familiar
with the negotiations
between the 11-time champion coach and the franchise
told The Associated Press on
Friday.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because
the Knicks would only confirm that a “major
announcement” involving
team executives was scheduled. Jackson also did not
make any immediate public
comment, but the move had
been expected for several
days — and was practically
confirmed earlier this week
by Knicks star Carmelo
Anthony, who said he had
heard the Hall of Fame coach
was “coming on board.”
Jackson had been courted
by clubs before, and fans in
Los Angeles clamored for
him to return to coaching not
long after he left the Lakers
after the 2010-11 season.
He’s largely shunned limelight during this three-year
break from work, during
which he did things such as
working on his health and
released a book chronicling
his basketball life.
Denver coach Brian Shaw,
who played for Jackson and
has been an assistant under
him as well, said Friday that
he would not be surprised to
see one of his mentors take
on the challenge of rebuilding the Knicks.
“I think he’s a basketball
lifer, a basketball junkie,”
Shaw said in Miami, where
the Nuggets were playing the
Heat. “I think that with all
the success that he’s had,
what he’s learned and his
passion for the game, I think
it gets boring when you do
something like he’s done all
his life and all of a sudden
you’re kind of out of the mix.
If he does do it, he’d be excited about the challenge of
attacking the game from a
different position.”
Jackson played his first 10
NBA seasons with the Knicks
— he was there for 11 actually,
missing the 1969-70 championship season because of
injury. Jackson was a key part
of the 1972-73 team that won
the NBA title, topping the
Lakers.
New York hasn’t won a
championship since. Jackson
has won 11 since, six with the
Chicago Bulls and five more
with the Lakers.
Jackson’s arrival in New
York will likely usher in a new
era for the Knicks, who may
miss the playoffs this season
after winning 54 games a year
ago.

PRESERVE
Second par-3
course weighed
From Page B1
“That’s pretty good company,” Hickox said.
Keiser is thrilled with how
the course, designed by Bill
Coore and Ben Crenshaw, has
been received.
“We knew it would turn
out well, because Ben and Bill
are great,” he said. “It turned
out better than we thought it
would.”
Keiser said he knew it was
a risk asking golfers to pay
$100 to play a par-3 course.
But the success of Bandon
Preserve in its first two years
has been great enough that
Keiser is considering a second par-3 course, a little further south on the resort
property.
“Right now, it’s not zoned
for golf,” Keiser said. “Right
now, it’s a dream and a concept.”
As it is, Keiser has other
priorities, including the May

The Associated Press

Philadelphia 76ers head coach Brett Brown, right, yells for a timeout to referee Brent Barnaky during the second half against the Indiana Pacers
on Friday in Philadelphia. Indiana won 101-94.

76ers lose their 19th in a row
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA — Paul George
scored 25 points and David West had 18
to help the Indiana Pacers beat
Philadelphia 101-94 on Friday night,
sending the 76ers to their 19th straight
loss.
With a loss to Memphis on Saturday,
the Sixers can tie the franchise record
for consecutive defeats in a single season. The Sixers lost 20 straight games
from Jan. 9, 1973-Feb. 11, 1973 in a 9-73
season. The NBA record for consecutive
losses in a season is 26 set by the 201011 Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Sixers last won on Jan. 29 on
Evan Turner’s buzzer-beater at Boston.
Turner was traded to the Pacers at the
Feb. 20 deadline and is now a key
reserve on a team expected to make a
deep run in the Eastern
Conference playoffs.
Thaddeus Young
led the Sixers with 25
points on 10-of-31
shooting and had 10
assists.
Nuggets 111, Heat 107: Kenneth
Faried scored 24 points, Darrell Arthur
led a big effort from Denver’s bench
with 18, and the Nuggets beat the suddenly reeling Miami Heat, handing the
NBA champions their fifth loss in six
games.
Evan Fournier scored 14, Ty Lawson
had 13 and JJ Hickson added 11 for the
Nuggets. Denver’s reserves scored 57
points.
Ray Allen scored 22 points for Miami,
which fell three games behind Indiana
in the race for the No. 1 seed in the
Eastern Conference. LeBron James
scored 21 points, Dwyane Wade added
19, Mario Chalmers had 16 and Chris
Andersen scored 14 for the Heat, who
turned the ball over 20 times and shot 7
for 24 from 3-point range.
It was only the fifth win for Denver in
its last 18 games.
Clippers 96, Jazz 87: Blake Griffin
had 20 points and Chris Paul shook off a
sprained ankle to score 18 points and
extended the Los Angeles Clippers’
winning streak to 10.
Los Angeles had its lowest points
total during the streak, but the Clippers
won this time with defense, forcing 20
turnovers by the Utah Jazz that led to 31
points.
The Jazz led 70-60 in the thirdquarter, but the Clippers capitalized on
a rash of Utah miscues and poor shot
selection to go on a 20-2 run.

NBA
Recap

20 opening of Bandon
Punchbowl, the resort’s new
3.4-acre putting course.
It’s been closed since the
fall, and guests are eager to
get a chance to play it, said
Erik Peterson, the resort’s
communications director.
“They’ve never seen anything like it,” Peterson said.
“It’s amazing.”
Keiser also is hoping for
approval of a land transfer
that would clear the way for
Bandon Links, the proposed
27-hole facility south of
town.
The Oregon Parks and
Recreation Department has
recommended approval of
the land transfer, but the
Parks Commission has
delayed final vote until at
least April 9.
Keiser remains confident
the project will be approved,
“just because it is so good for
the locals.”
Area residents would pay
$20 to play at Bandon Links,
$10 if they serve as mentors
for caddies. Golfers from
outside the area would pay
the same rates as golfers at
Bandon Dunes.

Paul landed awkwardly against the
basketball standard after a layup,
spraining his left ankle. The point guard
limped up and down the court, but still
quarterbacked the Clippers’ comefrom-behind-third quarter burst. He
had seven points and three assists in the
six-minute run that ended with Will
Green’s 3-pointer with 10:37 to play
that made it 80-72.
Spurs 119, Lakers 85: Danny Green
had 15 points and the San Antonio Spurs
won their ninth straight, defeating the
Los Angeles Lakers 119-85 for their
largest victory over their longtime
rivals.
San Antonio never trailed after the
opening four minutes, allowing coach
Gregg Popovich to limit his starters and
Manu Ginobili to an average of 17 minutes.
The Spurs had five reserves score in
double-figures, led by Matt Bonner’s 13
points and 10 rebounds. San Antonio
(49-16) maintained the league’s best
record ahead of Indiana and Oklahoma
City, who are both 48-17.
Pau Gasol had 18 points and 11
rebounds in 26 minutes and Jodie Meeks
had 15 points for Los Angeles (22-44),
which has lost five of six.
Wizards 105, Magic 101, OT: John
Wall had 12 of his 21 points in the fourth
quarter and overtime, Trevor Ariza
added 21 points and 11 rebounds overall,
and the Washington Wizards hung on to
beat the Orlando Magic in overtime.
The victory ends the Wizards’ twogame losing streak overall, and a sevengame road losing streak to the Magic.
Bradley Beal added 20 points before
being helped off the court with an injury
in overtime. Marcin Gortat finished
with 19 points and 14 rebounds.
Tobias Harris had 21 points and
Arron Afflalo finished with 18 to lead
the Magic. Orlando has now lost five in
a row and 11 of their last 14.
Raptors 99, Grizzlies 86: Jonas
Valanciunas scored a season-high 23
points, Kyle Lowry had 22 points and 12
assists against his former team and the
Toronto Raptors won for the 11th time in
14 games, beating the Memphis
Grizzlies.
Greivis Vasquez scored 17 points,
DeMar DeRozan had 16 and Amir
Johnson 12 as the Atlantic Divisionleading Raptors snapped a four-game
home losing streak against the Grizzlies
and improved to 16-0 at home this season when leading after three quarters.
Ten of DeRozan’s points came in the
fourth quarter, helping Toronto win

back-to-back games against the
Grizzlies after losing eight of the previous nine meetings.
Zach Randolph scored 16 points, only
six after the first, as Memphis saw its
four-game winning streak snapped.
Bobcats 105, Timberwolves 93: Al
Jefferson had 25 points and 16 rebounds,
and the Charlotte Bobcats defeated the
Minnesota Timberwolves for their
eighth straight victory at home.
Jefferson set a single-season franchise record with his 20th 20-point, 10rebound game of the season.
The Bobcats, currently the seventh
seed in the Eastern Conference, came in
averaging 103.9 points and shooting 47
percent in their last seven homes
games. They shot 48 percent against the
Timberwolves.
Gary Neal, benched Wednesday for
an “internal team matter,” returned and
provided a huge lift off the bench with
19 points on 6-of-10 shooting.
Charlotte led by as many as 18 points
in the second half and the
Timberwolves were never able to get the
lead under double-digits after the
break. Kevin Martin had 19 points to
lead Minnesota.
Suns 87, Celtics 80: Goran Dragic
scored 20 points and the Phoenix Suns
scored the last seven to beat the coldshooting Boston Celtics.
After Jeff Green’s two free throws for
Boston made it 80-80 with 2:02 left, the
fourth tie of the fourth quarter, Alex Len
started the decisive spurt with a threepoint play on a tip-in and a free throw.
The Suns finished the scoring with a
dunk by Markieff Morris and a layup by
Dragic.
Eric Bledsoe had 17 points and 10
rebounds and Morris added 15 points for
Phoenix, which broke a three-game losing streak and moved one game behind
Memphis for the eighth and final
Western Conference playoff spot.
Cavaliers 103, Warriors 94:
Spencer Hawes had 22 points and 13
rebounds to help the Cleveland
Cavaliers erase an 18-point first-half
deficit on the way to a victory over the
Golden State Warriors.
Dion Waiters added 18 points and
Luol Deng and Kyrie Irving had 16
apiece for the Cavaliers, who overcame
a slow start to take the game over in the
final three quarters and snap a six-game
losing streak against the Warriors.
Stephen Curry scored 27 points on
his 26th birthday and Draymond Green
added 18 but it wasn’t enough to prevent another bad home loss.

Garrigus takes Valspar lead
PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP)
— Robert Garrigus can’t
recall a better performance
going into the weekend. And
his golf has been pretty good,
too.
Garrigus spent most of the
practice days fishing in the
lakes of Innisbrook, catching
nearly three dozen bass. As
for his day job, he bagged 10
birdies over two days and
delivered the best score of the
tournament, a 5-under 66 on
Friday, to build a three-shot
lead in the Valspar
Championship.
His only other PGA Tour
victory was a little more than
an hour away at Disney, and
Garrigus offered a simple
explanation.
“It’s the fishing,” he said.
Garrigus, one of the
longest hitters in golf, has
made birdie on all of the par
5s both rounds. That has
contributed mightily to being
at 7-under 135, three shots
clear of Kevin Na going into a
weekend with a Masters spot
potentially up for grabs.

Na had a 68, while the
group four shots behind
included Pat Perez (71),
Matteo Manassero (70) and
Justin Rose (68), who is the
highest-ranked player in the
field at No. 7. Matt Every shot
a 71 in the afternoon and
joined them at 3-under 139.
John Daly was struggling
with what he called the yips
with his putter when he got
to the 16th hole. Daly put
three shots in the water,
shanked a 7-iron, duffed a
chip into the bunker and
made a 12. With a double
bogey on the last hole, he
shot a 90, the highest score of
his PGA Tour career.

Langer shoots 63
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.
(AP) — Bernhard Langer
birdied three of the last four
holes for an 8-under 63 and a
two-stroke lead in the
Champions Tour’s Toshiba
Classic.
Langer, the 2008 winner,
had eight birdies in his bogeyfree round at Newport Beach

Country Club. The 56-yearold German won the seasonopening event in Hawaii in
January for his 19th victory on
the 50-and-over tour.
Fred Couples, Jeff Hart
and Taiwan’s Chien Soon Lu
shot 65, and Kenny Perry,
Michael Allen, Kirk Triplett,
Duffy Waldorf and Scott
Simpson were another stroke
back.

Canizares keeps lead
AGADIR, Morocco (AP) —
Spain’s Alejandro Canizares
shot a 4-under 68 to maintain a one-stroke lead after
the second round of the
European Tour’s Trophy
Hassan II.
Canizares had a 14-under
130 total at Palais Royal.
England’s Steve Benson was
second after a 68.
The Robert Trent Jones Sr.designed Palais Royal sits
inside the walls of the Royal
Palace of Agadir. Other than
the tournament, the course is
used only by King
Mohammed VI and his guests.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nick
Johnson scored 16 points,
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson
added 12 and Arizona ran
away from tired Colorado in a
dominating second half to
rout the Buffaloes 63-43 in
the Pac-12 tournament semifinals Friday night
Unlike its last win over
Colorado, Arizona (30-3)
started slow, allowing the
Buffaloes to keep it close at
halftime.
Playing its third game in
as many days, Colorado had
no chance at stopping the
Wildcats once they got
rolling, succumbing to
Arizona’s defensive pressure
and string of highlight-reel
plays.
Arizona shot 60 percent
in the second half and held
Colorado (23-11) to 5-of-22
shooting in the final 20 minutes to earn a spot today’s
championship game against
UCLA.
T.J. McConnell added 12
points, five assists and four
rebounds for the Wildcats in
front of a pro-Arizona crowd
at MGM Grand Garden Arena
that made it feel like McKale
Center West.
Askia Booker had 20
points to lead Colorado,
which has a two-day wait to
see if the NCAA tournament
selection committee deems
them worthy of the bracket.
Arizona put on a show in
its tournament opener, flexing its defensive muscles for
everyone to see with an overwhelming quarterfinal victory over Utah.
The Wildcats held the
Utes to 13 first-half points,
39 overall, 12 field goals and
25 percent shooting — all
tournament records.
UCLA 84, Stanford 59::
Norman Powell scored 22
points, Travis Wear added 16
and UCLA started its rout of
Stanford early, rolling over
the Cardinal 84-59 in the
Pac-12 semifinals on Friday
night.
Coming off a rout in the
quarterfinals, UCLA (25-8)
started another one by building a 12-point lead in the
opening four minutes. The
Bruins kept making shots and
kept building the lead, racing
off to Saturday’s championship game against fourthranked and top-seeded
Arizona.
Kyle Anderson added 13
points, eight rebounds and
seven assists for UCLA,
which shot 65 percent.
Stanford (21-12) was listless from the start of its third
game in three days, unable to
match UCLA’s intensity or
athleticism.
The Cardinal labored
offensively and barely got in
the Bruins’ way on defense,
left now to wait for Selection
Sunday to see if they’ll be in
the NCAA tournament.
Dwight Powell scored 16
points and Chasson Randle
added 11 for Stanford.

Big Sky Conference
North Dakota 79,
Portland State 63: Aaron
Anderson scored 19 points
and Troy Huff added 18 as
second-seeded North Dakota
topped No. 5 seed Portland
State Friday to advance to the
Big Sky Conference title
game.
North Dakota (17-15)
jumped to a 22-11 lead as
Jaron Nash and Alonzo
Taylor each scored eight early
points. After that point,
North Dakota maintained a
double-digit lead for nearly
the entire game.
Portland State (17-14)
came within 62-53 with 8:54
remaining, but North Dakota
responded with a 6-0 spurt
and continued to pull away
down the stretch.
Nash added 13 points.
North Dakota sunk 28 of 35
free throws, led by Huff who
was 12 of 15.
Portland State made 26 of
36 free throws, but committed 18 turnovers compared
with 11 for North Dakota.
Gary Winston scored 14 to
lead the Vikings. Kyle
Richardson added 13 while
Andre Winston Jr. and
DaShaun Wiggins each
scored 12.

Saturday,March 15,2014 • The World • B3

Sports
Sutherlin cruises into Class 4A final Oregon men lead
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CORVALLIS — Far West League
champion Sutherlin advanced to the
title game at the Class 4A girls state
basketball tournament by beating
Seaside 44-28 in the semifinals Friday
at Gill Coliseum.
Sutherlin faces La Salle Prep for the
title tonight after the Falcons topped
Mazama 62-54 in the other semifinal.
Sutherlin, which has not lost a regular-season game any of the past three
seasons, fell to La Grande in the semifinals last winter.
This time, the top-ranked Bulldogs
cruised over the Seagulls as Miranda
Mendenhall scored 15 points. Kayce
Mock added 13 points and seven
rebounds for Sutherlin, which built a
25-15 lead at halftime and went on to
lead by as many as 20 points.
Kaitlin Lewis had 10 points for
Seaside (18-6), which shot 32.4 percent
from the field. The loss snapped a 15game winning streak for the Seagulls.
In the late game, Aleah Goodman
had 23 points in La Salle Prep’s victory.
The second-seeded Falcons (25-1) led
from the start and pushed the advantage
to as many as 12 points late in the game
for the team’s 19th straight win.
Amber Lease has 19 points and
Caileigh Smith added 16 for sixthseeded Mazama (21-4).

Class 4A Boys: Reece Wible had
18 points and La Salle Prep defeated
Tillamook 49-29 in the boys semifinals
on Friday night.
The second-seeded Falcons (22-3)
advance to face Philomath in the state
championship game tonight at Gill
Coliseum. The top-seeded Warriors
(23-3) defeated La Grande 61-52 in the
earlier semifinal.
Zane Wright led the sixth-seeded
Cheesemakers (19-7) with 12 points.
Ben DeSaulnier had 25 points for
Philomath in the earlier semifinals.
Koeby Bennett added 16 points and
nine rebounds for the Warriors, who
have won 14 straight going into the title
game.
Jake Powell led fourth-seeded La
Grande (19-4) with 18 points.
Class 5A Boys: David Shedrick
had 22 points and 11 rebounds and
Churchill earned its second consecutive state finals berth with a 68-50 win
over Madison in the Class 5A boys basketball semifinals Friday night.
Churchill (25-2) advances to the
championship game, where it plays
Jefferson (25-1) tonight at Matthew
Knight Arena. Last year, Jefferson
defeated Churchill 59-53 to win the title.
All five Churchill starters scored in
double figures. Deshone Brooks had 13
points, and Brendan Nesbitt 11. The
Lancers out-rebounded Madison 38-

25. The game’s high scorer was Aubrey
Stephens, who scored 28 points for
Madison (18-10).
Silas Melson scored 21 points and
Kadeem Strickland hit a go-ahead 3pointer with 2:36 remaining, lifting
Jefferson to a 53-47 win over West
Albany in the earlier semifinal.
The Gonzaga-bound Melson hit
four 3-pointers and grabbed 10
rebounds. Devaunte Paschal had 16
points for the Democrats, who are
shooting for their fifth state title in
seven years.
Nate Sherwood led West Albany
(21-6) with 15 points.
Class 5A Girls: Leslie Robinson
had 20 points and 18 rebounds and
Corvallis earned its first state championship berth with a 48-28 win over
Hermiston in the OSAA Class 5A girls
basketball semifinals Friday night.
Robinson, the daughter of Oregon
State men’s basketball coach Craig
Robinson, made 8 of 12 and blocked
two shots in leading the Spartans.
Corvallis (22-4) plays Willamette, a
67-52 winner over Lebanon, in
tonight’s championship game. The
Wolverines are the defending 5A state
champions.
Lexi Bando scored 20 points and
Sami Osborne had 19 to lead Willamette
(25-1), which will play in its third
straight state championship game.

NCAA indoor meet
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.
(AP) — Texas’ Kaitlin
Petrillose broke the college
women’s pole vault record
Friday night, clearing 15 feet,
1 inch in the NCAA Division I
Indoor Track and Field
Championships.
Petrillose broke the mark
of 14-11 set by Arkansas’ Tina
Sutej in 2012.
“My main goal was to
keep my composure and my
endurance,” said Petrillose,
who just missed clearing 151
5 ⁄2. “I wanted to be able to be
able to continue to get higher
bars and get that collegiate
record.”
Florida State’s James
Harris turned in one of the
top individual performances
1
of the meet, clearing 7-7 ⁄4 in
the high jump, and nearly
pushing the collegiate record
3
of 7-9 ⁄4.
In the team standings, the
Oregon led with 24 points
heading into the final day.
The Ducks’ Edward Cheserek
won the 5,000 in 13:46.67
and teammate Parker Stinson
was third.

“We had a huge day on the
men’s side, even better than
we expected,” Ducks coach
Robert Johnson said.
For the women, Stanford
was second in the medley
relay to take the lead with 22.
Florida was three points
behind and looking for its
fourth title in the past five
years.
“They’re on a mission,”
Gators coach Mike Hollaway
said. “We have to remind
them that we still have work to
do. It’s not over. We put ourselves in position to do well,
but we have to keep fighting.”
Dartmouth’s
Abbey
D’Agostino successfully
defended her title in the
5,000 in 16:20.39, giving her
five NCAA individual championships.
Alabama’s
Diondre
Batson took the 200 in 20.32,
and Kentucky’s Dezerea
Bryant won the women’s
event 22.69.
Arkansas’ Jarrion Lawson
1
took the long jump at 27-6 ⁄2,
and TCU’s won the women’s
event at 22-1.

Carolina Panthers’ Steve Smith (89) runs after a catch against New York Giants’ Prince Amukamara (20) during a game in Charlotte, N.C. Smith,
a free agent, signed a three-year deal with the Baltimore Ravens on Friday.

Smith gets deal with Baltimore
Lions re-sign tight end

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Free agent wide receiver Steve Smith
has signed a three-year deal with the
Baltimore Ravens.
The Ravens announced the signing of
the 34-year-old Smith on Friday.
Smith was released by the Carolina
Panters on Thursday after 13 seasons
and headed to Baltimore to talk to the
Ravens, who were eager to add provide
quarterback Joe Flacco another target.
Smith ranks 19th in the NFL in career
receptions. He caught 64 passes for 746
yards and four touchdowns in 2013.
Baltimore has had a void at wide
receiver since trading Anquan Boldin to
the San Francisco 49ers after winning
the Super Bowl in February 2013. The
Ravens went 8-8 last season and missed
the playoffs for the first time in six years.
Smith is Carolina’s all-time leader in
receptions (836), yards receiving
(12,197) and touchdowns (67).

Colts sign Nicks
INDIANAPOLIS — The Colts have
agreed to terms with free-agent receiver Hakeem Nicks.
Team owner Jim Irsay confirmed the
deal Friday on Twitter. Terms of the deal
were not immediately available.
The injured Nicks caught 56 passes
for 896 yards but did not score a touchdown last season with the New York
Giants. His contract expired after the
season.
Nicks had recently said he was willing to take a one-year deal to prove he
was healthy.
With the Colts, he joins a receiving
corps that includes perennial Pro
Bowler Reggie Wayne and rising star
T.Y. Hilton, and he’ll play with one of
the top young quarterbacks in Andrew
Luck. Wayne will try to return this season from a torn ACL.

DETROIT — The Lions have resigned tight end Brandon Pettigrew,
keeping one of Matthew Stafford’s top
targets and a player who can potentially
make defenses regret focusing too much
on Calvin Johnson.
Pettigrew will get a $16 million, fouryear contract with half of the money
guaranteed, according to a person
familiar with the negotiations who
spoke Friday to The Associated Press on
condition of anonymity because the
deal had not been
announced.
The Lions drafted
Pettigrew with the
20th overall pick in
2009, the same year
they selected Stafford
first overall in the NFL draft. The native
of Tyler, Texas, has 284 receptions for
2,828 yards and 16 touchdowns in five
NFL seasons.
Pettigrew said part of the reason he
wanted to stay was because he’s in “a
groove,” with teammates such as
Stafford.
“We got drafted together,” he said.
“We’ve already got that going, and I
think that’s important. I love the city.
I’m grateful for being able to be here.
The city is going through change, as is
the organization. It’s just an honor to be
a part of that.”

Free
Agency

Titans release Fitzpatrick
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Quarterback
Ryan Fitzpatrick says he’s been released
by the Tennessee Titans, who signed
Charlie Whitehurst on Thursday to back
up Jake Locker.
Fitzpatrick told The Associated Press
on Friday, “You can say I’ve been
released, yes.”
Fitzpatrick signed a two-year contract
with the Titans last March. He started

nine games for the Titans last season and
went 217 of 350 for 2,454 yards with 14
touchdown passes and 12 interceptions.
The 31-year-old Fitzpatrick has thrown
for 16,790 yards, 106 touchdowns and 93
interceptions in 85 career games.
Whitehurst, also 31, has gone 84 of
155 for 805 yards passing with four
interceptions and three touchdown
passes in 13 NFL games.

Bears sign Pro-Bowl corner
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — The Chicago
Bears have agreed to a one-year contract with two-time Pro Bowl cornerback Charles Tillman.
Tillman’s status was one of the
biggest questions hovering over the
team this offseason after the Bears went
8-8 and missed the playoffs for the
sixth time in seven seasons. But they
answered that on Friday, announcing he
will be back for a 12th season.
The Bears have been overhauling a
defense that struggled last season. They
decided to bring Tillman back even
though he is 33 and is coming off a season in which he was limited to eight
games because of a torn right triceps.

Dolphins get veteran corner
MIAMI — Veteran cornerback and
rookie negotiator Cortland Finnegan
sealed a deal Friday with the Miami
Dolphins.
Representing himself in contract
talks because he has no agent, the eightyear veteran found a new home after an
injury-plagued 2013 with the St. Louis
Rams.
“It was a great experience,” he said.
“If I was like four years in the league, it
would be cool to have an agent. The
older you, you can understand where
your market value is.”
Free agent guard Shelley Smith also
visited the Dolphins on Friday.

Ex-Seahawk
joins Revis in
New England
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Suspended former Seattle
cornerback Brandon Browner
said on Friday that he has
agreed to a contract with the
New England Patriots, giving
the AFC East champions
another potent defender in
pass coverage.
A day after representatives for Darrelle Revis confirmed that the three-time
All Pro would be joining the
Patriots, Browner said on
Twitter: “I am proud to
announce that I am a New
England Patriot.” The team
has not confirmed either
deal, but Browner’s was
reportedly worth $17 million
over three years.
“I am honored that the
Patriots are making me part
of their legendary organization,” Browner wrote. “I
intend to diligently work

with the same passion and
dedication that I have displayed since coming into the
NFL to uphold the great traditions and qualities that are
embodied by the Patriots.”
After winning the AFC
East for the fifth consecutive
year, the Patriots lost the
AFC championship game in
Denver 26-16 as Peyton
Manning threw for 400
yards, two touchdowns and
no interceptions. This week,
No. 1 cornerback Aqib Talib
agreed to a reported six-year,
$57 million free agent contract with Denver.
Another Patriots defensive back, Alfonzo Dennard,
is serving a 60-day jail term
in Lincoln, Neb., for a 2012
assault on a police officer. He
is expected to be out in time
for training camp.
Revis, one of the top players on the free agent market,

the race is anyone’s guess.
“I’m not here telling
fairytales,” Gontcharov said
by telephone. “Of course, it’s
very uncertain. The concept
itself is based on great
demand and potential.
Whether we will be able to
realize it now is unclear at the
moment, too uncertain.”
Gontcharov was in
Lausanne on Thursday to
meet with IOC officials and
confirm the bid files had
arrived by shipment. Just
getting that far was an
achievement.
“We worked very hard to
complete the applicant file,”
he said. “It’s all been a very
big challenge. So many times
we had to cancel some events
that were planned in promotion of the bid, such as the
logo launch and different
social events. Every time
when we thought the situation has calmed down, there
was a new escalation.”
While most bid cities
work hard to promote their
case, Lviv is keeping a low
profile while Ukraine
remains in turmoil.
“All the nice words and
slogans and so on that we
have prepared, there’s no
sense in it,” Gontcharov said.
Lviv is located in western
Ukraine, where much of the
population favors ties with
the European Union. Many in
eastern Ukraine have closer
economic and traditional ties
to Russia.
The Lviv bid also has
offices in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The offices, located
near Independence Square,
were closed for two days during last month’s deadly
clashes between demonstrators and police.
“We came back to our
offices and found three bullets,” Gontcharov said. “It
was very difficult to concentrate on the project.”
A key requirement for any
Olympic bid is government
backing and financial guarantees — something that has
been thrown into doubt for
Lviv by the changes and
instability in Ukraine.
“Of course (the bid)
depends on the government
highly, and right now the
government has other priorities,” Gontcharov said.
An IOC panel will examine the files of the 2022 bid
cities and submit a report to
the executive board before its
decision in July on the short
list of finalists.
“It is a short time frame
but if you have followed the
events in Ukraine, from one
day to the other there can be
so many things happening,”
Gontcharov said.

Cincinnati gives
coach extension
The Associated Press

Former Oregon State standout and Seahawks cornerback Brandon
Browner has signed with the New England Patriots.
reportedly agreed to a oneyear, $12 million deal
Thursday.
Browner, who was suspended four games in 2012
for violating the NFL’s policy
on performance-enhancing
drugs, was suspended in
December for again violating
the league’s substance abuse
policy. He will miss the first
four games of the 2014 regular season, but he will be
allowed to attend training
camp and play in exhibition
games.
The 29-year-old Browner

had 19 tackles and one interception before he was injured
in Week 10 last season. He
missed the Super Bowl,
which the Seahawks won 438 over the Broncos.
“I would be remiss if I
didn’t thank the Seattle
Seahawks for giving a CFL
player the once in-a-lifetime
opportunity to return to the
NFL, making a young boy’s
dream come true,” he wrote
on Twitter. “I say thank you
for everything you have done
for myself and my family. I
am a truly blessed person.”

Cancer returns for Hall of Fame quarterback
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Hall of Fame
quarterback Jim Kelly’s cancer has
returned.
The Erie County Medical Center in
Buffalo said in a statement Friday that
the cancer was found when the former
Buffalo Bills star came in for follow-up
testing after having oral surgery to

LONDON (AP) — Sergej
Gontcharov sums up the status of Ukraine’s bid for the
2022 Winter Olympics in one
word: uncertain.
The Ukrainian city of Lviv
was among the five contenders that submitted
applicant files to the
International Olympic
Committee by Friday’s deadline.
With Ukraine engulfed in
political crisis and its strategic Crimean peninsula under
Russian control, it’s unclear
whether Lviv will be able to
keep pursuing its Olympic
campaign.
“Obviously so much is
connected to what is going on
in the country,” Gontcharov,
the CEO of the Lviv bid, told
The Associated Press in an
interview Friday. “As of now,
there are more urgent and
more important things that
have to be clarified.”
Competing with Lviv for
the 2022 Olympics are
Almaty, Kazakhstan; Beijing;
Krakow, Poland; and Oslo.
The five delivered their
applicant files to the IOC this
week, outlining their vision
and concept for the games, in
the first phase of the bid
process.
The IOC executive board
will decide which cities go
through to the final phase at a
meeting in Lausanne,
Switzerland, on July 7-9. The
full IOC will select the host
city on July 31, 2015, in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.
“We did our job by submitting the files to the best of
our ability and now we have to
wait and see,” Gontcharov
said. “Hopefully the situation
calms down quickly and is
resolved peacefully. Then we
will enter into more detailed
and more concrete talks with
the new government.”
Beijing, which hosted the
2008 Olympics, is seeking to
become the first city to host
both the Summer and Winter
Games. Oslo hosted the 1952
Winter Games. Krakow
would hold some ski events
across the border in Slovakia.
Almaty is a strong contender,
bidding for a second straight
time after failing to make the
cut for 2014.
Lviv’s bid has been buffeted by the upheaval in
Ukraine, including the antigovernment protests and
outbursts of violence that led
pro-Russian President
Viktor Yanukovych to flee
last month. Russian troops
have since moved into
Crimea, where the public will
vote Sunday on whether to
break away from Ukraine and
become part of Russia.
How long Lviv remains in

remove cancerous cells last year.
The statement says the hospital’s
head and neck cancer specialists are
determining a course of treatment.
Kelly spent 11 seasons with the Bills
before retiring following the 1996 season. He has since made Buffalo his
home.

The hospital says Kelly asks that people keep him and his family in their
thoughts and prayers.
His son, Hunter, was born with
Krabbe disease, an inherited nervous
system disorder. Given little more than
three years to live, Hunter died at the
age of 8 in 2005.

CINCINNATI (AP) —
Cincinnati Bengals coach
Marvin Lewis signed a oneyear contract extension
Friday, keeping him on the
job through the 2015 season.
Lewis has led the Bengals
to three straight playoff
berths, a first for the franchise that began play in 1968.
But the Bengals are 0-5 in the
playoffs under Lewis.
His 90 career victories are
the most in Bengals history
by 26 over Sam Wyche (64).
His record is 90-85-1 in the
regular season. Lewis’ 11 seasons are the most for a
Bengals head coach.
“I’m blessed to continue to
do a job I love here in
Cincinnati,” said Lewis, 55. “I
truly appreciate the commitment by our management to
continue to enable us to build
an NFL championship team.”
The Bengals went 11-5 last
season and won the AFC
North. They fell at home to
San Diego in the wild-card
playoff round after losses to
Houston the previous two
years in the opening week of
the postseason.
Still, Lewis has brought
continuity and organization
to the Bengals, even if they
have not won a playoff game
since the 1990 season.

Lewis lost both coordinators in the offseason, with
Mike Zimmer becoming head
coach in Minnesota and Jay
Gruden taking over in
Washington.
“Marvin has earned this
commitment for the job he is
doing,” said Bengals president Mike Brown. “We are
one of only five teams to
qualify for the playoffs the
last three years, and our
prospects are bright looking
ahead. Marvin is driven to
achieve more, and we are
happy to secure his leadership of our team beyond the
coming season.”

Brandon Spikes
agrees to deal
with Buffalo
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.
(AP) — Free-agent linebacker
Brandon Spikes agreed to a
one-year deal with the
Buffalo Bills on Friday night.
The Bills also said they
reached terms with former
San Francisco running back
Anthony Dixon.
Spikes had 86 tackles and
an interception last season
for New England, his fourth
with the Patriots.

Saturday,March 15,2014 • The World • B5

Community Sports
Knutsen sets state record
THE WORLD
South Coast Aquatic
Team swimmer Grace
Knutsen set a state record for
the 11-12 age group in the
400-yard individual medley
during the Oregon Region XII
Senior Meet last weekend in
Gresham.
Knutsen also was the
high-point scorer for girls,
despite competing against
older swimmers in her
events. To qualify for the

meet, she had to achieve state
standards for 14-year-olds.
In the 400 individual
medley, Knutsen’s time was 4
minutes, 35.85 seconds. She
placed third behind swimmers who are 15 and 16 years
old, SCAT coach Chris
Richmond said.
Knutsen also won the
1,000 and 1,650 freestyle
races, placed second in the
500 freestyle and was third in
the 200 backstroke.
Alyssa Bennett also had

three top-10 finishes in the
meet and Liliana Bennett was
10th in one of her events.
Zaraya Estrada also competed in the meet, held at Mount
Hood Community College.
This weekend, Karl
Stuntzner-Gibson and
Cassie Dallas are competing
in the senior sectionals meet
at Federal Way, Wash.
Next weekend, SCAT will
send nine individuals to the
age-group sectionals, also at
Federal Way.

Traveling team sets tryouts
THE WORLD
Coos Bay Area Basketball
will hold tryouts next week
for three boys traveling
teams.
The tryouts for the junior
varsity and varsity teams will
be held at 5:45 p.m. on March
17. Tryouts for the seventhand eighth-grade team will
be held at 5:45 p.m. on March
19.
Both tryout sessions will

be in the Harding Learning
Center gymnasium adjacent
to Pete Susick Stadium on the
Marshfield High School
campus.
Patrick McKnight, the
coach for the program, said
the goal of Coos Bay Area
Basketball is to help players
elevate their talent.
“We want to show you
how to play to your highest
level,” he said.
Players in the program
will learn how to become

better shooters, perfect
offensive moves, sharpen
ball-handling skills, improve
defensive abilities and
advance overall basketball
understanding.
In addition, they will
improve confidence, mental
toughness, self-discipline,
personal faith and leadership
on and off the court.
For more information, call
McKnight at 925-353, 8082
or contact him by email at
cbaboutlawz@gmail.com.

Hammond Volleyball champions
races to
victory

Contributed Photo

Liam Buskerud throws one of his opponents for a victory during the tournament in Washington last weekend.

Buskerud wins gold medal
THE WORLD
Six youth members of the
Southwestern
Oregon
Community College Judo
Program competed in the
Emerald
City
Judo
Championships
last
Saturday in Bothell, Wash.
The tournament included
more than 170 competitors
from the Northwest.
Liam Buskerud, age 10,
brought home a gold medal in
the boys 9-10 lightweight
division with a perfect 4-0
record, winning all his match-

es with full-point throws.
Liam’s younger sister,
Haley Buskerud,age 8,won the
gold medal in the girls 7-8
lightweight division, winning
all three of her matches.
Haley’s twin sister, Brynn,
went 2-2 on the day in the same
division, but did not place.
Veronica Sawyer, age 11,
competed in her first tournament and won the bronze
medal in the girls 11-12
heavyweight division.
Conor Gore, age 10, and
Keilan Gore, age 12, competed, but did not earn medals.

“I was very pleased with
the results and the effort the
kids put into the competition, especially with Veronica
attending her first tournament,” SWOCC coach Rob
Schab said. “It can be a big
overwhelming attending a
large tournament like this
and she really showed confidence and determination in
her efforts.”
Spring term adult and
children’s judo classes begin
April 1.
For more information, call
Schab at 541-756-0414.

THE WORLD
Coos Bay runners Zach
Hammond and Janet
Stamper Holland raced to
victory in the Run of Two
Cities last weekend.
The challenging 10-kilometer race takes runners
from Mingus Park in Coos
Bay through downtown
North Bend and back.
Hammond, a former
Marshfield High School
standout, covered the course
in 36 minutes and 9 seconds.
Brent Hutton of Bandon finished second in 37:12. Aaron
Bennion of Coos Bay was
third in 40:37.
Stamper Holland finished
fourth overall and first
among women in 42:13. She
was followed by North Bend
High School student Gabby
Hobson (44:29) and Alysha
Beck of Coos Bay (47:57).
Bandon eighth-grade
twins Hunter and Sailor
Hutton were the winners of
the 5-kilometer race.
Hunter Hutton covered
the course in 20:20. Sailor
was second, and first among
female runners, in 21:01.
Michael Stapple of North
Bend was second among men
(22:58), followed by Carter
Brown of Langlois (25:31).
Jill Davidson of Coos Bay
was second among women
(26:33), followed by Michele
Crook of Coos Bay (28:07),
who ran the race with her
daughter, Marshfield standout Shaylen Crook (28:08).
Complete results are listed in today’s Community
Scoreboard.

Babe Ruth sign-ups begin
THE WORLD
South Coast Babe Ruth is
registering players ages 13 to
15 years old for the 2014 season. Registration forms are
located at each school in the
North Bend and Coos Bay
school districts.
The registration deadline
to participate in tryouts and
the draft is April 19.
Preseason practices will
be held at the batting cages at
Clyde Allen Field at 6:30
and
Mondays
p.m.

Wednesdays, or at the practice field at North Bend
Middle School, weather permitting.
Players must be registered to attend early practices, and can sign up at
those practices.
Those registering after
April 19 will be placed on
teams through random selection.

3 p.m. Sunday at North Bend
Fire Hall.
Managers and coaches
still are needed. Coach applications will be available at
the meeting.
Updates on registration,
fundraising and team information will be discussed. All
interested in participating in
the league are encouraged to
attend.
For more information, call
General meeting
Walter White at 541-756South Coast Babe Ruth 3958 or Rick Spring at 541will hold a general meeting at 756-4669.

Mud drags open speedway season
Contributed Photo

The 14U Gold team from the Pirate Volleyball Club finished first in
a February tournament in Portland. Players include, back row
from left, Alex Locati, Brenna Mault, Brooklyn Lyon and Riley
Collicott; middle row, Kortney Garnett, Jordyn Wicks, Makenna
Anderson and Meg Holt; and front row, Gracie Jensen and Brianna
Chapanar.

Curtis takes all-around
THE WORLD
Gymnastics Plus athlete
Abbie Curtis won the allaround title in the Level 7
senior division at the
Emerald Team Challenge in
Eugene last weekend.
Curtis also had the top
score in the uneven parallel
bars and the balance beam.

Curtis had the best finish
among nine girls from
Gymnastics Plus who competed in the event.
Several of the other girls
had top-10 finishes either in
individual events or the allaround.
Complete scores are listed
in today’s Community
Scoreboard.

THE WORLD
Coos Bay Speedway will
open its gates today and kick
off the 2014 season with the
first of several popular annual Mud Drags events.
Event planners water a
drag strip inside the dirt oval
to create a layer of mud for
the racers to deal with.
Racers will take turns rac-

ing through the mud while
trying not to slide off the
course or get stuck.
The cost to enter a truck is
$35 and a pit pass is $20.
The speedway also is
incorporating a new ATV
class for this year’s races.
Admission into the event
is $10 for adults and kids
ages 7-17 and senior citizens
get in for $8. Children ages 6

and under get in free.
Groups of two adults and
three kids can get a Family
Pass for $25.
Gates open at 4 p.m. and
racing starts at 6:30.
Mud Drags also will be
held the next two Saturdays,
March 22 and March 29.
For more information,
visit www.coosbayspeedway.us.

North Bend plans baseball clinic
THE WORLD
The
North
Bend
Independent Baseball League
will hold a clinic at 10 a.m.
Saturday, March 22, at the
North Bend High School
football field.

The clinic is for players
interested in participating in
the league this spring.
The registration deadline
is March 24. Sign-up forms
can be obtained either at the
clinic or at the Big 5 store.
The cost for the season is

$52 for players in the T-Ball
(ages 5 and 6) and Rookies
(ages 7 and 8) and $60 for
players in the Minors (9-10)
and Majors (11-12) divisions.
For more information,
contact Corky Franklin at
425-299-0184.

Upcoming Road Races on the South Coast
For more information on upcoming road
races and for photos from past events, those
interested can log on to the South Coast
Running Club’s Web page at www.southcoastrunningclub.org.
Salmon Creek Run — Saturday, April 5,
starting at 10 a.m. in Powers at the corner of
Second Avenue and Hemlock Street. Events
include 10-kilometer and 5-kilometer races
on an out-and-back course along Salmon
Creek south of town. The entry fee is $5 ($3
for students under 19) and the winners of
each race received canned smoked salmon.
For more information, call Joe Hallett at 541439-4485.
Roseburg to Coos Bay Relay — Saturday, April
19, starting at KPIC-TV in Roseburg with a staggered start (slower teams start earlier). This 67mile relay is for five-person teams (or more
runners for noncompetitive teams). A related
23-mile walk relay starts at LaVerne County
Park near Fairview. Both races finish in Coos
Bay at the Fred Meyer store. The event is a
fundraiser for Camp, which provides an outdoor experience for children living with cancer.
The entry fee is $32 per team member for
teams that sign up by April 5 and $37 per team
member from April 6-12. No entries are accepted after April 12. For more information, call
either 541-267-6329 or 541-756-1589.

B6 •The World • Saturday,March 15,2014

Sports
Verizon will
sponsor IndyCar
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —
IndyCar announced a multiyear agreement with Verizon
on Friday that will make the
telecommunications giant
the title sponsor of the series.
Verizon replaces former
title sponsor Izod. Its sponsorship of what will now be
known as the Verizon
IndyCar Series launches with
the March 30 season opening
race.
The
partnership
announced Friday includes
network coverage upgrades
to Indianapolis Motor
Speedway, as well as
enhancements to IndyCar’s
race control and new pit lane
monitors. New York-based
Verizon, the largest U.S. cellphone carrier, also plans to
enhance connectivity for
spectators at domestic races.
“Verizon is delighted to
become the title sponsor of
the IndyCar series and to
bring even more of our innovative technology to the fans,
to the teams and to the entire
motorsports community,”
said Dan Mead, president and
CEO of Verizon Wireless.
“The intersection of racing and technology has never
been more relevant, and our
expanded partnership with

INDYCAR provides a unique
opportunity to demonstrate
that synergy, integrate new
services like LTE Multicast
and help propel the sport forward.”
Verizon has been an “official partner” of IndyCar for
the past four years, and is the
primary sponsor of Will
Power’s car with Team
Penske. Verizon will also
sponsor Juan Pablo Montoya
in at least eight races this
year, and sponsor all three of
Team Penske’s cars at the
inaugural road course race at
Indianapolis.
As part of the deal with
IndyCar, Verizon will use its
LTE Multicast solution at
race tracks in the future. It
will also complement the
Verizon IndyCar ‘14 app and
indycar.com, the series’ website.
“Verizon is the perfect
partner for us to showcase the
high level of innovation and
technology that is inherent in
our sport,” said Mark Miles,
CEO, Hulman & Co., the parent of IndyCar and IMS.
“IndyCar will provide a large
audience of tech-savvy consumers who are eager for the
latest technology to further
enhance their experience.”

Formula One season
will open in Australia
MELBOURNE, Australia
(AP) — Mercedes confirmed
its status as favorite to win
the Formula One seasonopening Australian Grand
Prix by setting the fastest two
times in Friday’s practice
sessions, with Lewis
Hamilton edging his teammate Nico Rosberg.
Hamilton failed to complete a lap in the opening
practice session due to a malfunctioning oil pressure sensor which shut down his
engine, but recovered to set a
time of 1 minute 29.625 seconds in the second session
around the Albert Park circuit, 0.157 seconds ahead of
Rosberg.

Fernando Alonso of
Ferrari was fastest in the
first session but dropped to
third in the second, half a
second off Hamilton’s time
but a quarter of a second
ahead of Red Bull’s
Sebastian Vettel, who is
beginning his campaign for a
fifth straight drivers’ championship.
While it was unusual to
see Vettel placed anywhere
but number one in any session, Friday’s practice represented a big step forward for
Red Bull after a difficult offseason in which it was
plagued by problems with
the sport’s new V6 turbo
hybrid engines.

The Associated Press

Driver Denny Hamlin makes his way around the track during qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup series race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Friday.
Hamlin will start on the pole for Sunday’s race.

Hamlin sets track record at Bristol
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) —
Denny Hamlin ended two
weeks of Team Penske dominance by winning the pole at
Bristol Motor Speedway.
Hamlin set a track record
Friday with a lap at 129.991
mph to earn the top starting
spot. It broke the mark of
129.535 set by Joe Gibbs
Racing teammate Kyle Busch
a year ago, and ensured that
neither Brad Keselowski or
Joey Logano won the pole for
the first time since
NASCAR’s new knockout
qualifying debuted three
weeks ago.
Hamlin ran only one lap in
the first segment and it was
good enough to lock him into
the top 12 to advance into the
second segment. He then ran
one lap, took the pole for
Sunday’s race, and got out of
his car to see if anyone could
beat him.
“As a short track guy, I can
feel when, ‘OK, this is all I’ve
got.’ Or, ‘This is a really good
lap,’” Hamlin said. He aborted an attempt at a second lap
in the first segment because,

Kenseth sets baby
contingency plans
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Matt Kenseth has a contingency plan for next week’s race at California as he awaits
the birth of his third child.
Sam Hornish Jr. will be on standby for the Nationwide
Series race at Auto Club Speedway, and Jeff Burton will
be in place in case Kenseth needs a replacement driver for
the Sprint Cup race.
“Although Jeff Burton is not crazy about going to the
West Coast, he agreed to standby to practice or something if we needed that for a session,” Kenseth said.
Burton, who is running a limited schedule this season,
tweeted Friday: “Friends don’t let friends drive with baby
on the way.”
“If that wasn’t a top-12 lap,
we were in big trouble. So I
knew that was going to be
good. Then ultimately strategy comes into play, wanting
to conserve your car and
keeping everything as cool as
you can for the second segment
“I was going to run two
laps in the second segment,

but I bobbled it pretty bad
into Turn 3 and didn’t finish
the lap. But I knew the first
one was good.”
So good that he wasn’t
very
worried
when
Keselowski and Logano both
pulled back onto the track as
the clock ticked down to
attempt to bump Hamlin
from the pole. The team-

mates swept the front row at
Phoenix and Las Vegas,
where the new format was
first used this season, and
they made one last run at
Hamlin.
Keselowski came up just
short, settling for second at
129.965.
Logano was fourth,
behind Hamlin’s teammate
Matt Kenseth.
“I feel like we did what we
were supposed to do to be
able to go out there and give it
a shot for the pole,” said
Logano, the pole-winner last
week at Las Vegas. “Denny’s
strategy was pretty good. Just
not good enough for us.”
The Penske drivers were
only able to make those final
attempts because of a new
rule this week by NASCAR
that permitted the use of
cooling units on pit road for
teams to cool their engines
following their runs.
NASCAR decided Tuesday to
allow the devices following a
conference call with crew
chiefs because of safety concerns raised by drivers.

sheds
Engles Furniture expands while others fold County
jobs even as
BY CHELSEA DAVIS

unemployment
rate declines

The World

NORTH BEND — When
other furniture stores folded
during tough times, Engles
Furniture buckled down and
expanded.
Owner Eric Engles attributes much of the store’s
success to the hard work,
education and training that
his parents, Lyle and Alice,
instilled in him at a young
age: “As soon as you stop
educating yourself, you die,”
he said.
This marks the 50th
anniversary
of
Engles
Furniture’s opening in what
is now the North Bend
Masonic Center on Union
Avenue. Lyle and Alice
moved to the Bay Area from
Valentine, Neb., in 1964. Two
months later, Eric was born.
In 1983, the family moved
the store to its current location
on Sherman Avenue. Three
years later, Eric took over.
Then the stock markets
crashed worldwide on “Black
Monday.”
In
1989,
Weyerhaeuser had to close its
North Bend mill. The South
Coast continued to take economic hits, but Engles
Furniture kept growing.
“I see a slow down in
business as an opportunity
to grow, expand and change,”
he said. “So when consumer
confidence returns to the
marketplace, we have more
and better offerings for our
customers.”
Three recessions haven’t
deterred Engles.
“Many stores came and
went in this region, but
Engles
weathered
the
storms,” he said (Literally —
strong winds knocked off a
piece of the store’s sign last
week). “To be successful in
business you have to have
price, quality and service that
supersedes the competitors.”
While other stores have to
order an item and wait for it
to arrive, Engles staff zips
down to its giant warehouse
and distribution center to get
whatever the customer

By Alysha Beck, The World

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50th anniversary in April.
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The store has to be pro- list in December.
Educated, trained and
gressive in terms of the
furniture it carries, Nye said. loyal staff contribute to
“You have to change it up those successes. Turnover is
and provide additional rare at Engles, which

employs 25 full-time workers in advertising, finance,
sales and the warehouse.
Customers see the same staff
every time they walk in.
“It’s what my parents
made me do: management
and development institutes,
performance groups — outside of college,” he said.
“That’s the honest to God
thing about it, is constant
education.”
Many people think the
worst case scenario is training
staff who then leave, Nye said.
It’s actually the opposite.
“The worst case scenario
is not training them and they
stay,” he said.
Education doesn’t stop
with Engles’ staff. He travels
the nation throughout the
year meeting with other
retailers.
When times get tough,

Raw milk rules easier to swallow
BY SHAUN HALL
Daily Courier

ROGUE RIVER — Teri
White’s goats and cows
probably don’t care much for
politics. They produce milk,
and she sells it. Untreated.
Unpasteurized. Raw.
White and her husband,
Art, operate Runnymede
Farm near Rogue River. She
milks the goats, he milks the
cows. Then, they bottle it and
put it out for pickup by customers.
“That’s all we do is filter it
and jar it up,” White
explained, after milking two
of her Saanen mix goats,
Alice and Claire. “Today’s
customers will get today’s
milk.”
Now she can advertise her
product, thanks to a freespeech lawsuit filed by a
McMinnville-area
farmer
that forced the Oregon
Department of Agriculture to
stop enforcing a ban on
advertising raw milk. Raw
milk, the sale of which is
banned in nine states, is
allowed to be sold from small
farms in Oregon.
White’s customers pay $6
per half gallon and $11 per
gallon for goat milk, and
$4.50 per half gallon and $8
per gallon of cow’s milk.
Until recently, the Whites
could have gotten in trouble
with the state if they had
advertised those prices. Last
month, however, the state
relented, promising to stop
going after raw milk producers in order to settle a federal
lawsuit brought against the
department by Christine
Anderson of Cast Iron Farm
of McMinnville.
In exchange, Anderson
agreed to drop the lawsuit.
“Staff shall not enforce
(the statute) that prohibits a
person from advertising raw
milk for sale,” said Katy
Coba, department director,
in a memo issued Feb. 12.
“The exercise of ODA’s
enforcement discretion is
made in consultation with
the Oregon Department of
Justice.”

By Shaun Hall, Daily Courier

Teri White pours milk from bucket to bucket and through a filter in the
kitchen of her farm home. The fresh milk is put in jars and refrigerated,
ready for pickup by customers.
Asked to explain the
department’s problem with
raw milk, Food Safety
Program Manager Frank
Barcellos instead pointed to
the federal Centers for
Disease
Control
and
Prevention, which champions pasteurization, a process
of heating food to kill bacteria. The CDC states that the
process does not significantly change the nutritional
value of milk.
But White believes raw
milk is better than pasteurized milk.
“For one thing, it tastes
better,” she said. “A lot of
people who are lactose intolerant can drink it. Those with
milk allergies can drink it.
And, there’s a lot of good
bacteria in raw milk.
“Of course, it comes with
risks, but if you’re clean and
safe, you’re OK.”
Runnymede Farm is part

of the growing local food
movement in the Rogue
Valley characterized by
small, family farms that
embrace organic methods
and are concerned about
contamination from genetically engineered crops and
other products. In May, voters in both Josephine and
Jackson counties are being
asked to ban GMOs, short for
genetically modified organisms.
On her way out to the shed
to milk her goats last week,
White carried a bucket of
sudsy water containing a bit
of bleach. She cleaned the
goats’ udders, “to make sure
all the crummies are off.”
The goats readily stepped
up on a platform and stuck
their faces into a bucket of
grain while White milked
them, aiming for a bucket.
She then took the milk inside
her kitchen and poured it

through a filter and into
another bucket.
“It’s like a giant coffee filter,” she said.
The milk then went into
marked jars and was put in a
cooler in a shed out front,
ready for customers to pick it
up. They drop payment off
and leave empty jars for the
next round. She sells about
60 gallons a week.
White is not the only
farmer who sells raw milk in
the Rogue Valley. However,
owing to years and continuing
fears of regulatory persecution, it is difficult to say how
many others there are.
Several producers and
family farms that were contacted for this report politely
but firmly declined to be
interviewed. The preferred
method
of
advertising
remains word of mouth.
One producer who did
speak, Yvonne Roberts of RR
Resources in Merlin, pointed
out that while the state was
no longer enforcing its ban on
advertising, state statutes
still call for a ban.
“I just like to stay legal,”
Roberts said. “The law’s still
there. There’s still a law that
says it’s illegal.
“There’s so many worries
about the USDA (the U.S.
Department of Agriculture).
We don’t want the USDA
going, ‘Your operation is
breaking the law.’”
Barcellos, of the state agriculture department, said the
Oregon Legislature will be
asked next year to formally
lift the advertising ban.
In the meantime, he
added, “ODA will not enforce
the raw milk advertising
ban.”
Producers continue to fly
under the radar, however.
Roberts said people have told
her it’s hard to find places to
buy raw milk.
“We’re frustrated,” she
said. “They would like to buy
it, but they can’t find it.
There’s headway being made.”
Reach reporter Shaun Hall
at
541-474-3813
or
shall@thedailycourier.com.

many buyers and owners stop
going to these marketwide
meetings. They don’t learn
about the changing industry,
he said, stunting their company’s growth.
“It allows for idea
exchange and problem solving on a person-to-person
level,” he said. “When business gets tough, they (other
retailers) quit going, but
when things turn around,
they’ve missed the boat.”
Soon, Engles Furniture
plans to expand its showroom
(already the largest on the
coast at 27,000 square feet).
“If you’re not growing,
you’re dying,” Engles said.
Reporter Chelsea Davis
can be reached at 541-2691222, ext. 239, or by email at
chelsea.davis@theworldlink.com. Follow her on
Twitter: @ChelseaLeeDavis.

Coos County’s employment saw a dip during a slow
January.
The county’s total payroll
employment fell by 780 in
January, according to the
state
Employment
Department. The county’s
seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell from 9.2
percent in December to 9
percent in January.
Most losses were typical
for the month: 50 construction
jobs
were
lost,
manufacturing jobs declined
by 100 (60 in food manufacturing), retail trade lost 120
jobs (likely due to post-holiday reductions), business
and professional services lost
130 jobs and government was
down by 280 jobs.
But overall in 2013, several
private sector industries
showed growth: wood product
manufacturing,
wholesale trade, retail trade,
leisure and hospitality, and
local government education.
Only one industry experienced significant loss over
the year: business and professional services, which lost
320 jobs.
Curry County largely
mimicked this trend, losing
150 jobs in January. The seasonally
adjusted
unemployment
rate
increased from 10 percent in
December to 10.1 percent in
January.
The county also felt job
losses in construction, retail
trade, leisure and hospitality,
and local government.
Gains over the last year
were in manufacturing,
financial activities, health
care and other services.
Five others exhibited losses
over
the
year:
construction, professional
and business services, leisure
and hospitality, state government, and local government
education.

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to have too many colors
that
aren’t
working
together.”
One trick for doing
When a 2011 storm
that, Smith says, is to
destroyed their black
select roof colors true to
shingle roof, Carol and
your home’s history and
Ray Knoff of Vinton,
architecture, and in natuIowa, opted to replace it
ral shades.
with a roof in vintage
For instance, Victorian
Victorian colors: a clayhomes originally had collike red and gray.
ored roofs — reds, orange,
Victorian homes typipurple and green were
cally had red slate roofs,
typical — because the
which weathered gray
color of the slate varied so
over time, so the blend
she
says.
much,
worked, says Carol Knoff.
Homeowners wanting to
“It took Vinton a while
restore that look should
to like it,” she says, but
match those subtle tones.
the neighbors have since
“When you saw purcome around. The 1901
ple, it was not a bright
house is among several
Barney purple,” she says.
Victorians built when
Bright metal roofs —
Vinton housed one of the
most often red or green —
world’s largest canneries.
are better suited for
homeowners
Many
farmhouse-style homes,
these days are shunning
or used over small strucof
roofs
monotone
tures like porticos or bay
brown, black and gray
windows. Steel blue is
and perking things up
more European.
with color — blues, reds,
Colored roofs are also
purples, greens or comstarting to crop up on
binations of those hues.
“new American-style”
homes, which Smith
describes as combining
popular styles and materials — perhaps, say, a
stone and brick exterior
with a copper roof.
The demand for colored roofs led DaVinci
Roofscapes of Kansas
City, Kan., to create faux
slate and shake (wooden
shingle) roofing in 49
colors “so homeowners
can mix and match those
if they want to get really
creative,” says the company’s Wendy Bruch.
DaVinci’s palette is
based on the naturally
occurring colors seen on
historically
accurate
The Associated Press roofs, she says. But cusThis 2012 photo provided by DaVinci Roofscapes shows a red and grey tom
colors
are
colored roof that replaced a storm damaged black one at Carol and Ray increasingly popular, too.
Knoff's home.
“There can be some
Associated Press

“A lot of people are
going with roofs that
stand out on their own,”
says Kate Smith, a
R.I.-based
Newport,
color consultant. “They
want something different
that expresses them and
expresses their personality.”
Which could be a
tricky proposition, says
Smith: “You want to
stand out while still fitting
into
your
neighborhood,” she says.
She admits to being
taken aback herself when
colored roofs first came
into vogue several years
ago.
Exterior home color
should always be used
judiciously, she says. But
it is even more crucial to
use it correctly when
you’re adding it to a large
fixed feature, like a roof,
that is not easily changed
with a fresh coat of paint.
“Anything that’s permanent needs to blend,”
she says. “You don’t want

The Associated Press

This 2012 photo provided by DaVinci Roofscapes shows a red and grey colored roof that replaced a storm
damaged black one at Carol and Ray Knoff's home in Vinton, Iowa. The colors, produced by DaVinci
Roofscapes, are typical of the original roofs on Victorian homes.

crazy things going on
because we can create
new colors,” Bruch says.
DaVinci has worked
with customers to create
colors ranging from a
chateau blue for a French
provincial-style house to
a green that matched the
color on a metal roof

with
weather-related
damage.
Many
customers
appreciate help picking
the right shades, Bruch
says. “It can make it
confusing for the homeowner when you have
too many options,” she
says.

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Veteran bulb growers have
learned to put patience
ahead of pruning in helping
their perennials bloom season after season. They’re in
no rush to remove the
unsightly leaves and stems
of these botanical storehouses, which need time
after flowering to renew
their growth cycle.
“We consider the foliage
of the bulbs the ‘recharging
batteries’,” said Becky Heath,
president and chief executive officer of Brent and
Becky’s Bulbs at Gloucester,
Va. “If they aren’t recharged,
the flowers won’t bloom
again.”
Bulbs will green up
despite premature pruning,
but return with fewer and
smaller blossoms. How long
must you wait before trimming the foliage to get
successive seasons of color?
“After spring-flowering
bulbs finish blooming, allow

for approximately six to
eight weeks before removing
the foliage to ground level,”
said Hans Langeveld, coowner
of
Longfield-Gardens.com, a
retail website for bulbs,
perennials and edibles in
Lakewood, N.J. “Another
rule of thumb is to wait until
the foliage turns brown and
dries out.”
That garden grooming tip
applies to all spring-flowering bulbs including tulips,
daffodils, hyacinths, crocus,
alliums and specialty varieties, Langeveld said. But
there are ways to make the
decay less unsightly.
“An idea is to combine
bulbs with other perennials
in the borders like hosta so
that hosta foliage covers the
dying bulb foliage,” he said.
Summer-blooming bulbs
that flower until cold weather arrives need differing
levels of maintenance. “This
(first killing frost) would be
the time to cut to ground
level and dig the bulbs that

are not winter-resistant, like
dahlias, gladiolus and begonias,” Langeveld said.
Other post-bloom, bulbcare suggestions:
— Braiding. “The only
foliage that lends itself to be
braided
are
daffodils,”
Langeveld said. “It is not a
necessity, but it will help
keep your borders neat and
tidy.”
— Seed pods. “Make sure
to remove the seed pods that
sometimes
form
after
blooming,” he said. “These
eat up a lot of energy from
the bulbs.”
— Fertilize when planting
for healthier roots. Before
and during bloom also are
good times to apply bulb fertilizer, said Leonard Perry,
an extension professor with
the University of Vermont.
“This can be a granular form
(of fertilizer) as bulbs are
emerging or you can water
with a liquid fertilizer,” he
said in a fact sheet. “The key
is to provide nutrients as the
leaves are making food for

the next year.”
— Divide the bulbs if
they’re
becoming
too
crowded, as often happens
with large daffodil clumps,
or if they are blooming less
each year, Perry said. “Dig
and shake the soil off bulbs
after bloom, leaving leaves
attached if not died off
already. Bulbs should separate naturally, otherwise
plant back ones still joined
together,” he said. “Don’t
forcibly pry bulbs apart.”
Should you treat tulips as
annuals or perennials?
Tulips need to be in dry,
well-drained soils during
their summer dormancy if
they’re to multiply or return
to bloom, said Scott Kunst,
head gardener and owner of
Old House Gardens in Ann
Arbor, Mich. “That’s hard
to come by in the rainy
eastern half of the U.S. or
where people water during
the summer,” he said. “In
those situations, many
people just grow tulips as
annuals.”

The Associated Press

Miniature daffodils in a pet cemetery that will need time to recharge for the
next growing cycle near Langley, Wash. Small bulbs can make a big impact
but they need six to eight weeks before pruning to rebuild their energy for
the next flowering season. Don’t remove the unsightly leaves and stems
too soon if you’re looking for a similar burst of color next season.

This undated photo shows tulips during spring in New Market, Va. Spring flowering bulbs can be cut back
after they bloom but premature pruning will see them return with fewer and smaller blossoms.That includes
tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocus, alliums and specialty varieties.

Way out West they gotta name
March is supposed to be
the windy month, right?
What was going on in
January?
My co-worker had been
on the job for just about six
months when we were walking down the hill to the
coffee shop one spring
evening a few years ago.
“Does the wind ALWAYS
blow here?” she asked.
(She was a transplant to
the Great American Desert
from the Big Snow Country
up north. Apparently, folks
there enjoy more serene
weather.)
Look at a map, I suggested. From the Arctic Circle to
the Gulf of Mexico, there’s
nothing in the way. The
wind’s just building up
speed when it gets to us.
These, gang, are the
Plains that “the wind comes
whistlin’ down.”
Frankly, it’s no wonder
our part of the country is
board-flat. Whatever bumps
there once were on the
prairie were blown south
long ago. Perhaps, now that I
consider it, that’s how Texas
got so big.
Many of my fellow flatlanders learned a bit about
our fabled gales this past
January. Nothing like waking to a Time and
Temperature report that the
high will be 29 degrees … but
the wind chill will make it
feel like 1. Or less.
Still, there are good things
that can be said of the wind.
• The winter wind cleans
off whatever autumn maple
leaves remain on my lawn
very nicely, shoving them
onto the eastern neighbor’s
lawn.
Of course, the western
neighbors’ cling-for-dearlife oak leaves come
tumbling over the retaining
wall, where they drift in
great
windrows
(aptly
named, by the way) until I
shovel them into the trash
barrel.
• During all seasons, the
wind does a fine good job
trimming my maples of their
dead branches, which need
to be collected every few
days and disposed of in that
same barrel.
• The wind makes this an
ideal place for lazy kite-flyers to practice their hobby.
I say that because when
the wind is as strong as it’s
been these past few months,
you don’t even have to run.
You just toss your kite into
the air, and nature takes care
of the rest.
On the downside, of

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dragon-shaped
weather
vane on my garage roof if it
weren’t for the wind? Not
me certainly. I hate heights.
• Sailboats would be
nothing but amazingly
expensive rafts if it weren’t
for the wind. Not that
there’s an awful lot of sailing
going on in the arid flat
lands, but I suppose someone somewhere must care
about such things.
• Even the dog is grateful
for wind. It brings a wealth
of fascinating scents his
way, and sniffing appears to
be one of his favorite pastimes. Second only to
chasing leaves.
And as long as he doesn’t
catch them before they get to
the neighbor’s lawn, I don’t
care.
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course, you
probably
ought to fly
aluminum
or stainless
steel kites.
With very
long tails.

•
The
w i n d
s h o u l d
STEVE
make our
BATIE
part of the
country
Ground Zero for turbines
and energy production.
That we continue to rely
largely on coal and nuclear
power is neither here nor
there. We could switch if we
wanted to.
Sigh.
• The wind keeps things
from simply dangling. I’m
thinking here of flags and
chimes, as well as damp
laundry.
And what would spin the

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Pope sees banner first year, but expectations high
VATICAN CITY (AP) —
From his simple sound bites to
his breaking of Vatican rules,
Pope Francis has made being
Catholic cool in his first year.
He might not like his superstar status, but he certainly
knows how to work a crowd
and he has endeared himself to
the public for looking out for
the poor and radically shifting
the church’s focus to mercy
rather than moralizing.
“Now, people are happy to
say ‘Well, actually I am a
Catholic,’ and sometimes
they’re quite keen to let

themselves be known as a
Catholic,” British Cardinal
Vincent Nichols said. “And I
think that’s the effect of Pope
Francis. There is credibility
around the Catholic project.”
But not everyone is
thrilled and expectations are
high for his second year, with
high-profile travel, Vatican
reform and discussion on
hot-button issues like family
and sex on the agenda.
The anniversary of Francis’
papacy is Thursday. Here’s a
look at some key moments in
Francis’ first year that give

insight to what the future
may hold for the 1.2-billion
strong Catholic Church.
Francis the rule-breaker: Francis believes the
church has too many “smallminded” rules and hasn’t
been shy about breaking
them. Just two weeks after
being elected, he washed the
feet of a woman and Muslim
during a Holy Thursday ceremony reenacting Jesus’
washing of his disciples’ feet.
Vatican rules state it should
be performed on men only.
Francis declared at least

two saints without going
through the Vatican’s miracle-confirmation protocol,
not to mention his decision
to shun the papal apartments
for the Vatican hotel.
Will Francis break another
rule barring divorced and
civilly remarried Catholics
from receiving Communion?
He has called a churchwide,
two-year debate on the issue
starting in October. But even
proponents of a more merciful approach endorsed by
Francis insist core doctrine
won’t change.

A Jesuit Franciscan or a
Franciscan Jesuit? If there
ever was an indication the
Jesuit from Argentina would
be a very different kind of
pope, it was his decision to
name himself after St. Francis
of Assisi, the 13th-century
friar who gave up his wealth
to minister to the poor.
Two popes: When Pope
Benedict XVI abdicated, he
insisted he would remain
“hidden from the world” in
prayer. But Francis has slowly coaxed him out of
retirement and given him an

increasingly public role in
the church, believing that he
shouldn’t be packed away in
a museum like a “statue.”
With Benedict increasingly back in the spotlight,
comparisons to his more
crowd-pleasing successor
will likely come to the fore,
for better or worse.
“To put it very simply, to
understand Benedict, you’ve
got to read what he writes,”
said Nichols, the archbishop
of Westminster. “To understand Francis, you have to
look at what he does.”

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when they come out with student debt but cannot find a
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others are now offering this
kind of safety net for both the
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your daughter well.
Dear Mary: I have been
approached by debt consolidation for them to consolidate
all my credit card debts into
one lump sum with the promise to possibly be out of credit
card debt in as soon as two
years. Is this a good option? Is
it something to pursue? —
Karen D., email
Dea r Ka ren: Run, don’t
walk, away from anyone who
approaches you offering debt
consolidation. These are scam
artists. They will make all
kinds of promises, tell you to
stop making your monthly
payments and instruct you to
send those funds to them
instead. They’ll promise to
hold the money and use it to
negotiate with your creditors.
Do not believe this! They’ll
disappear and you’ll be left
holding the bag — and in
default with all of your credit
card companies. This is not a
good option, and it is not
something you should pursue.
D ea r M a r y: I made the
detergent you published in
your newspaper column and
just love it. I’ve shared samples with my friends and have
many of them making their
own. Thanks again for your
wonderful column. — Valla
C., Louisiana
Dear Valla: I’m so happy to
know that you and your
friends are enjoying the
homemade laundry detergent. Isn’t it just the best?
And it’s so cheap to make —
only about five cents a wash
load! Here’s a link to the recipe
and photo tutorial (everydaycheapskate.com/detergent) in
case there is a reader anywhere who has not given this a
try. Thanks for your kind
words.
Mary invites questions at
mary@everydaycheapskate.c
om, or c/o Everyday
Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2099,
Cypress, CA 90630. This column will answer questions of
general interest, but letters
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www.DebtProofLiving.com, a
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Smart Woman’s Guide to
Planning for Retirement,”
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columns, please visit the
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BRIDGE
Sam Levenson, a humorist and
author who died in 1980, said, “It’s so
simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say, then say the opposite.”
That seems to recommend an
unnecessary step. Why not just think
of something wise?
Let’s try to find the simple line to
make six hearts in today’s deal after
West leads the spade queen to
South’s ace.What should declarer do?
Note North’s two-heart rebid. This
is preferable to one no-trump with no

spade stopper. Those three strong
hearts will usually be as good as four
low. Then South immediately wonders
about a slam, but is nervous about
two immediate club losers. He rebids
two spades, knowing his partner will
treat this as a game-try. And when
North continues with two no-trump,
guaranteeing at least one club stopper, South jumps to what he hopes he
can make.
Declarer has two losers, one in
each black suit. He might play to
establish dummy’s diamond suit, but
that would fail here. The
much simpler line is to
gain an extra trick by ruffing a loser in the shorter
trump hand.
At trick two, South leads
a club. Let’s suppose East
takes dummy’s queen
with his ace and returns
his second spade.
Declarer wins with his
king, plays a club to
dummy’s king, takes the
heart ace, leads the heart
seven to his queen, and
cashes the club jack, discarding dummy’s remaining spade. Then South
ruffs his last spade with
dummy’s heart king,
returns to his hand with a
diamond, draws trumps,
and claims 12 tricks: two
spades, five hearts, two
diamonds, two clubs and
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This year will present professional opportunities and
personal problems. Explain to
the important people in your
life what your plans are and
how much of your time is
required to see them through.
Emotional upsets can be
avoided if you share your
dreams, hopes and wishes.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
20) — You will need to tread
lightly. You will face hypersensitive people looking for a
battle. Busy yourself around
the home, or find some solitary activity to keep you out
of trouble.
ARIES (March 21-April
19) — If someone criticizes
you, consider why. You may
want to begin again with a
fresh attitude. Your reputation
could be damaged if you
aren’t giving your best.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20) — Strive to listen to any
advice offered you. Although
it may not be what you want
to hear, give any suggestions a
fair chance. The results could
prove rewarding.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20) — Try to surround yourself with good friends and
steadfast allies. You may be
subject to criticism if you go
against the grain. Honesty is
your best recourse.
CANCER (June 21-July
22) — You need to laugh
more. Gather with good
friends and family for some
light entertainment. A card or
board game will help keep
your mind off your troubles.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
— Many learning tools are
available to you. Travel or
education will enable you to
study different people and cultures. A trip to an exotic location will be enlightening.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22) — Don’t let your emotions get the better of you.
Deal with others in a non-confrontational manner. Logic
and reason will advance your
cause more than harsh words
or accusations.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct.
23) — You may feel a temptation to be a couch potato. Get
together with a friend and do
something active instead.

Some fresh air and exercise
will rouse your muscles and
your mind.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) — Reckless spending and
extravagant purchases will not
win over the people you are
dealing with. You can’t buy
respect. Straight talk and
direct action will make a far
better impression.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov.
23-Dec. 21) — Interactions
with family members will be
difficult. Remove yourself
from potential conflicts by
getting together with friends.
Given enough time, thorny
issues will dissipate. Fruitless
arguments will only compound the problem.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19) — Make financial
matters your priority.
Scrutinize your paperwork to
be sure that you have all the
pertinent documents. You may
uncover a new way to limit
your expenses.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — You’ll experience
an emotional tug-of-war. Take
an unbiased look at your personal relationships. Perhaps
someone isn’t as attentive as
you’d like. Make your feelings known calmly and sincerely.
MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2014
Listen to the advice about
your career that important
people are giving you if you’d
like to advance this year.
Implement sound strategies
and expand your working
methods. A detailed approach
could be required. Other people can only take you so far;
the final steps must be yours
alone.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
20) — Don’t feel overwhelmed by recent events.
Take a step back from all the
commotion in order to focus.
Avoid taking your frustration
out on those you love.
Reassess a partnership if you
have reservations.
ARIES (March 21-April
19) — It’s a good day to finish a project you’ve left dangling. Bypass personality
problems so that you can keep
moving forward. Working as a
team player will be in your
best interest.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20) — A promising career
opportunity is apparent,
although it may require a shift

in vocation. Your past
achievements have not gone
unnoticed. Don’t let a lack of
confidence hold you back.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20) — You need to stop
romanticizing the past. The
future can be just as rewarding if you think and act progressively. Take advantage of
the new and exciting experiences awaiting you.
CANCER (June 21-July
22) — It’s good to have
strong opinions, but don’t
force your will on others.
Accentuate the positive and
offer people a little kindness,
consideration and hands-on
help.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
— You will have to take bold
steps if you want to move forward. You might need to
enlist your friends and relatives to aid you. Their assistance will help you excel.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22) — You are in a terrific
upswing right now. Hesitation
at this point will only hold
you back. If you keep a positive attitude, you will be able
to accomplish everything you
set out to do.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct.
23) — It’s a great day to try
something new. Shake out the
cobwebs, step out of your
comfort zone and investigate
some different yet appealing
activities. Take on a physical
or mental challenge.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) — You may be reluctant
to take on a new project, even
though you have all the skills
and resources necessary for
success. Believe in yourself,
and you will come out on top.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov.
23-Dec. 21) — Being too outspoken will lead to trouble.
Take extra care when dealing
with colleagues. An innocuous comment on your part
may be seen as an insult.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19) — An issue that you
thought was settled will resurface. Do whatever it takes to
improve on your past performance and make a favorable impression on those
involved.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) — Diligence, not
speed, will be the order of the
day. Despite your enthusiasm
for the task ahead, you should
proceed slowly and carefully
to avoid a costly mistake.

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